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Trump ridiculed for trying to ‘rewrite history’ with war story: ‘All you can do is laugh’
What happened
RawStory reports that President Donald Trump claimed on October 1, 2026, that he had always said eliminating Iran’s nuclear threat would take four to six weeks—and that he had instead done it “in one night.” CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale disputed that account, saying Trump’s March remarks described the expected duration of the Iran war generally, not a separate timetable for neutralizing a nuclear threat.
Critics accused Trump of revising his earlier statements after the fact. Former Republican representative Joe Walsh called him a habitual liar, while MeidasTouch said the war…
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