Trump’s Iran Excuses Crack; Netanyahu’s War Bill Just Landed

Trump’s lawyers did not expose him on purpose; they exposed him because defending the Iran war meant writing Israel’s request into their excuses. Right, so Donald Trump’s Iran story has cracked because his own State Department legal adviser has put the damaging bit in writing. Reed Rubinstein has issued the legal defence of Operation Epic Fury, the American war against Iran, and right there in the official argument is the line that the United States is engaged in the conflict at the request of Israel and in the collective self-defence of Israel, as well as claiming American self-defence. That is the memo. That is the receipt. Trump has been saying Israel never talked him into the war with Iran, and now his own administration has taken the thing he was trying to deny and very inconsiderately he might say, put it right there in the paperwork, like some overpaid legal genius trying to hide the body and filing the burial location under “attachments.” America was told this was America defending itself, but the legal defence now names Israel’s request as part of the reason American force has been used. So Trump does not get to sell that story anymore as clean story of US self-defence, nonsense as it always was with Iran sitting on the other side of the world.