TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday offered a raft of explanations for launching “Operation Epic Fury,” the devastating air campaign against Iran that killed its supreme leader Ali Khamenei, including one gotcha justification: “I got him before he got me.”
In a series of interviews with several USmedia outlets – ten by one count – Trump wove a complex, sometimes contradictory narrative to justify a war that, going by various polls, has filled Americans with doubt and disquiet. The centerpiece of this rhetorical offensive came during a Monday afternoon call with ABC News when he was asked about the specific targeting of Iran’s highest religious and political authority. "I got Khamenei before he got me," the President bluntly told correspondent Jonathan Karl. "They tried twice, I got him first.”
