Look, I think the decision President Trump made to initiate military action against Iran was the single most consequential decision of his presidency. I think he made America safer. The Iranian regime, the ayatollah, when he was chanting death to America, he believed it. And I think the president as commander in chief acted decisively to stop that ayatollah from getting nuclear weapons, which God forbid, if Iran got nuclear weapons, in a blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of Americans could be killed. (00:20–00:28)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Iranian ayatollah genuinely believed in the anti-American sentiment he expressed.
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