When a room starts filling with smoke, you can expect Donald Trump to be the first one out the door. And as Operation Epic Fury grinds through its third week with no clear endpoint, mounting American casualties, global economic ruin, and a girls’ school in southern Iran reduced to rubble with more than 170 casualties, Trump is already looking for a way out.
That, at least, is the darkly logical reading of what The Telegraph is reporting. Trump has been quietly positioning his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to take the blame for his miscalculation with Iran.
