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Moving back to Iran, Trump is asked about the ground assessment of the Fordo nuclear site, which was hit by the US last week.
Trump is asked what his message is to the American intelligence community, after an early Pentagon assessment concluding that US strikes did not destroy the country’s nuclear programme and probably only set it back by months.
Trump replies that “they didn’t see it – all they can do is take a guess.”
He says “the fire and brimstone is all underground”. The whole area around the site is “black with fire.”
He repeats his assertion that the nuclear material was “obliterated”.
The reporter presses him: “Do you have a message to the intelligence community in terms of unvarnished information getting to you?”
I would say “wait until you know the answer”, Trump replies.
Trump then brings in Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who praises the US pilots who dropped the bombs on Iran’s nuclear sites. He then criticises CNN and the New York Times who “spin things to try to hurt Trump and our
country”.
The leakers have agendas, he says. “All the evidence of what was just bombed is buried under a
mountain,” Hegseth adds.