Public remains unsatisfied with Trump’s explanation for Iran war: Byron York

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said President Donald Trump did not “build up” for why the United States should engage in conflict with Iran.

Trump said on March 1 that the conflict in Iran will be “a four-week process,” though the war is still ongoing. York said “a lot of polls” have asked if Trump has been clear in explaining the purpose and goals of the Iran war, and the majority of respondents, “around 65%,” say the president hasn’t.

“So what does that mean? Well, first of all, the president was not clear at all before he did it,” York said on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday. “As a matter of fact, the first time he actually starts laying out the purpose of what he’s done is in that video that he releases at, like, two in the morning on the morning of the attack itself. So he didn’t