“We don’t want to achieve regime change. We want to achieve the end of the Iranian nuclear program,” Vice President J.D. Vance told ABC News on Sunday. “That’s what the president set us out to do.”
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“This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a press conference yesterday.
Trump was a bit more bombastic — surprise! — on Truth Social over the weekend. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’” he posted, “but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!”
I don’t believe Trump meant to undercut his veep or defense secretary, or that he did a 180 on
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