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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Out of town pool report - 8
Repeating here: there is no pool report 5. Apologies for the mis-numbering.
Vance quotes, please check against Otter: https://otter.ai/u/BcPfqH18Eq6QgZXToK8sm6DOSmY
More Vance remarks below…"one of the things I learned in the United States Break Force Serving from 03 to 07 is that we sometimes have leaders who would ask you all to go to war, but would not give you a clear mission…and one of the reasons why I'm proudest of what the President of the United States has done over these last 18 months is because when he has asked you to go to war, he has given you a defined mission, he's asked you to go and accomplish it, and most importantly, he's given you tools to kick the hell out of the enemy and to come home safely. That is what you should expect of many of our great Secretary of War of the President of the United States."
Now speaking on Iran war:
"He (Trump) asked you to ensure that we destroyed Iran's conventional military, and as we sit here today, their navy is at the bottom of the ocean, and they have no ability to project power like they did even 12 months ago.
"What else did he ask you to do? He asked you to destroy their nuclear program, and now, and trust me, I know, because I look at the intelligence estimates. If you look at what our own intelligence says about their nuclear program, they are further away from developing a nuclear bomb than they have ever been since basically the last 20 or 30 years, and that is because of you and because of your hard work, and finally, what the president asks you to accomplish is to destroy the defense industrial base of that country, so that if they ever decided to rebuild their military, or if they ever decided to rebuild that nuclear program, they would be harmless to do it, and you did that exactly as well."
"I believe that you have a presidential leadership today that will never ask you to go to war unless he's telling you why you're on a war, and most importantly, when he sits in war, he gives before, it gives you the tools you need to kick the hell out of the animate and come home safely."
Says president is "negotiating from a position of strength because of you."
Says that the same people "attacking the president of the United States for negotiating" are the same people who encouraged more and more aggression in previous wars in the Middle East.
"We dropped some bombs a couple of days ago. You know why? Because the Iranians were shooting at commercial ships, so we dropped some bombs. We applied some leverage, and we've had free commercial transit for the last three days."
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Jacob Bogage
Wed. Jul. 1, 11:51 AM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2072350357909274773