President Donald Trump on Wednesday spent nearly an hour attempting to offer multiple justifications of his decision to go to war with Iran and defended the deal his negotiators struck to end the fighting after more than 100 days.
Speaking at the end of his trip to France for this year’s G7 summit, the president opened his largely defensive remarks by touting the 60-day memorandum of understanding as one that “achieves everything we set out to accomplish, everything and much more.”
