On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s The Briefing With Jen Psaki, regurgitated the same, unreliable, CNN article that claimed the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities “only set them back by a few months.” Psaki even went as far as to say that Trump was always “about obfuscation and defiance being prioritized over facts.” Yes, Jen Psaki was the one who said this.
Psaki wanted to quibble over the word “obliterate” by elevating one assessment that was leaked to the press, while others remained classified:
Iran’s nuclear program has been completely and totally obliterated. I feel like maybe they had a notecard that said “obliterated” on it, and they gave it to all those people and made them say it, who knows? But that was the message from the Trump administration since Saturday night, clearly, that's what they kept saying over and over and over again. Even, by the way, as top members of the military, including high ranking people within this administration, were saying it’s too early to make an assessment. Because it is too early — was too early to make an assessment, and now here are the headlines from this afternoon.
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