Richard Engel on Iran: We All Feared Trump’s Angry Tweets at Night

‘...that the president would be at night, up late, angry and tweet a military threat against another country’

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ENGEL: "It is a strategic place from a military point of view. And as the admiral was just saying, if President Trump thinks he’s going to have a do-over with North Korea, with Iran, in that his tweets and escalating rhetoric will somehow end up with a summit that’s going to lead to an important photo-op, it could be that he’s misreading the situation. That’s one way of looking at it. The other would be looking at it through his temperament. This is kind of what all of us in the media and all analysts that I’ve spoken to always feared would happen one day. That the President would be at night, up late, angry and tweet a military threat against another country. I think that says quite a bit about where we are in the world right now. And then the third way of looking at it is, why is this happening?"

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