The Fox News host suggested Americans can’t “wrap their heads around” the president’s claims about Iran.
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham questioned Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. has “decimated” Iran ’s military after Tehran shot down a U.S. Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.
In an interview with former Trump State Department official Nathan Sales, Ingraham expressed her frustration at how Iran is continuing to hit U.S. military targets despite the president frequently touting the success of the conflict.
“We keep hearing their military is destroyed, but if their military is destroyed, how are they continuing to hit us? I mean, an Apache helicopter costs about $46 million. Not to speak of a potential injury or loss of life,” Ingraham said.
In response, Sales suggested that Iran has used the shaky ceasefire that has been in place since early April to “rebuild their armed forces and to deploy their armed forces in a way that they can use them to hit us. ”Later in the interview, Ingraham reiterated her point that “one thing that a lot of Americans can’t really wrap their heads around” is how the Trump administration has frequently suggested that Iran’s military has been “destroyed” or “decimated,” yet the fighting seemingly never stops.
“I think the Iranian military threat has been substantially degraded. It hasn’t gone down to zero, but it’s gone from 100 maybe to 10 or 15 or 20 percent of what it was before, so they’re going to continue to be a threat,” Sales said.
“Why did we leave any of them standing? If we wanted to just really get this done, why are they still standing at all? ” Ingraham asked. Sales replied that he believes that when Trump agreed to the ceasefire, he decided to “hit the pause button” and see if “we can use that momentum” to get a deal to end the deeply unpopular conflict.
Nathan Sales told Laura Ingraham that"we have to deal with the adversary as it exists” after the war with Iran erupted again. U.S. Central Command said the attacks targeting Iranian air-defense systems, ground-control stations, and surveillance radar sites were a “proportional response”. The attacks triggered a wave of retaliatory strikes from Iran on Wednesday, with Tehran saying it had carried out missile and drone attacks on U.S. military bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
Trump has repeatedly insisted that the war in Iran will end any day now and that Tehran is close to agreeing
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