President Donald Trump insisted he didn’t misunderstand Iran’s “pain tolerance,” boasting of the successes of Operation Epic Fury.
In a preview of an interview set to air Friday evening, Fox News host Brett Baier pressed Trump on the Iran war, asking, “Why are we where we are?”
“I didn’t underestimate anything,” Trump said. “We hit them unbelievably hard. Look, we left their bridges. We left their electricity capacity. We can knock that all out in two days. Two days. Everything. We left Kharg Island. … Hit it except for the valves where the oil comes out. Because when you hit that, that means you’re going to lose a little oil.”
The president added that ships were now turning to the United States for oil, “like we’ve never seen before.”
Baier followed up by saying the public wanted to know how much longer the war was going to last. The president turned to
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