President Trump Lies About U.S. Involvement in Israeli Attack on Iran
The Israeli attack would not have happened without U.S.-supplied weapons, U.S. taxpayer money, or the expectation of U.S. support and defensive aid
President Trump is claiming that the United States government “had nothing to do” with the Israeli attack on Iran.
This is as bold of a lie as any politician could possibly tell after Trump himself came out and said that the U.S. knew about and supported the attack. From The Wall Street Journal:
President Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he and his team were aware of Israel’s plans to attack Iran.
Asked what kind of heads-up the U.S. got ahead of the attack, Trump said in a brief phone interview on Friday morning, "Heads-up? It wasn’t a heads-up. It was, we know what's going on."
The president said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday and plans to speak with him again Friday. He called the operation "a very successful attack, to put it mildly."
"I told the other side, I said, you have 60 days to make the deal. On the 61st day, they attacked. Today is 61 actually, and it was a very successful attack," Trump said.
Knowledge of and the support of the Trump regime aside, the United States also supplied the weapons that Israel used in the attack against Iran and financially backs the Israeli government, as Trump himself noted in a post on Truth Social on Friday.
I told [Iran] it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come - And they know how to use it.
So how can it be that the United States “had nothing to do with the attack on Iran” when they knew about it, openly supported it, supplied the weapons that were used in the attack, and then helped defend Israel against a retaliatory attack from Iran? One of the reasons the warmongers and neoconservatives give for the necessity of a war against Iran is that Iran supports terrorist proxies in the Middle East against American and Israeli interests; now they want to claim that their open support of a proxy in a war against Iran does not make the United States a belligerent in that war. Either supporting, funding, and arming a proxy in attacks against others is an act of war and/or terrorism, or it isn’t. The United States doesn’t get to have it both ways anymore than anyone else in the world does.