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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue May 1, 2018, 08:19 AM May 2018

"The White House issued an official statement from press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders..."



MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough pinned the blame for an explosive — and, apparently, mistyped — White House statement about Iran on new national security adviser John Bolton.

The White House issued an official statement from press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claiming that Iran “has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program,” but the Trump administration later walked back those claims by insisting the verb was supposed to be in past tense.

“The question is, is this a message that John Bolton sent out himself and was later forced to walk back from Secretary of Defense, from the Secretary of State?” Scarborough said. “Because that information contradicts what Secretary of State (Mike) Pompeo said just a couple of weeks ago.”

The “Morning Joe” panelists agreed the statement reflected the disorganization inside the Trump administration, but former NATO supreme allied commander James Stavridis said the statement could set up war — regardless of why it was issued with that wording.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/words-start-wars-ex-nato-commander-explains-terrifying-consequences-white-house-typo-iran/

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