Philip Bump: It’s Okay to Say Trump Admin’s Claim Their Goal in Iran Is to Obliterate Their Nuclear Capability Is ‘Insane’

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BUMP: “Like, it's very obvious what happened, right? So all of us know what happened, which is they got chuffed up, and they thought they were hot, and they were going to come in, and they were going to take out Iran. And you know, everyone was talking in their ear about how easy it would be, and then it wasn't. And so now they're just left and have been left for the past six months or however long it's been, scrambling to come up with like, oh, no, this was the plan all along. And so we have to try and obliterate their nuclear capability is now the plan that they have settled on because it works with the base. But like, this was already dealt with in 2025. Like, it's insane, and I think it's OK for us to say this is insane.”