President Donald Trump used a lunch with his former chief strategist and a statement released through his White House press secretary as part of an elaborate strategy of head fakes and misdirection aimed at lulling Iran’s government — and GOP critics at home — into believing he was not ready to order American airstrikes.
In describing the surprise Saturday blitz attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Sunday morning called it “an incredible and overwhelming success” as he also alluded to the use of “misdirection and the highest of operational security” to conceal the plan.
