(Bridgewater) President Donald Trump rejects the notion that starting a war with Iran this year betrayed his slogan “No more wars,” which he repeated repeatedly during his campaign for the White House.
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In an interview broadcast Sunday on the show Meet the Press on NBC, Mr. Trump said he had “made no guarantee” that there would be no wars if he was re-elected.
“First of all, I did not guarantee that there would be no war. Why then would I have built the most powerful army in the world?,” President Trump said.
Mr. Trump also defended plans for a now-abandoned $1.8 billion fund that would have compensated the Republican president’s allies, and he reiterated his baseless allegations of massive fraud in the vote count that has dragged on in California since Tuesday’s primary. Â
He ended the interview abruptly, annoyed by questions from NBC’s Kristen Welker.
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During his 2024 campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly called his Democratic opponents warmongers and maintained that he was a president who had “started no new wars” and who would usher in an era of peace.
However, Mr. Trump said during the NBC interview, taped Friday in Wisconsin, that as a candidate he “didn’t promise anything.”
“I don’t like these endless wars. It’s not an endless war. We have been engaged in this for three months,” he said of the war with Iran, which began on February 28.
Mr. Trump said he was “doing the world” and the United States a favor by preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But elsewhere in the interview, Mr. Trump repeated a contradictory message by saying that US strikes last year had “wiped out” Iran’s nuclear sites.
He also defended his decision, made during his first term, to withdraw from the nuclear deal concluded by Democratic President Barack Obama with Iran, an agreement he strongly criticized, without negotiating the “better deal” he had promised to obtain.
« Cela prend des années pour faire ces choses », a dit M. Trump. Â
Trump accuses California of electoral fraud
California’s notoriously lengthy vote counting has attracted election conspiracy theories. Since Tuesday’s election, Mr. Trump has claimed without evidence that Democrats are rigging the vote.
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Ballots are inspected the day after the California primary elections at the Los Angeles County processing center, June 3, 2026, in City of Industry, California.
The chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, appointed by Donald Trump, said Friday that his office had opened “multiple investigations into voter fraud.”
Late-counted mail-in ballots favoring Democrats ate into the vote totals of Mr. Trump’s preferred candidates for governor and mayor of Los Angeles. While Mr. Trump has often argued that variations in vote totals as late ballots are counted are a sign of fraud, they are only a reflection of a slow counting process.
In the interview, Mr. Trump continued to assert that it was a sign of “cheating” and a “rigged election,” and became increasingly frustrated as Mr.me Welker pressed him to provide evidence to support these allegations.
« It is enough for me to consider. I have had enough of watching,” said M. Trump
“But that’s not proof,” replied M.me Welker.
“And I listen. And I listen to people. And let’s see what happens,” Mr. Trump replied.
Fonds « anti-instrumentalisation »
Mr. Trump defended plans that his Justice Department said he had now abandoned to create a $1.776 billion “anti-dealing fund” as part of a deal to resolve the lawsuit filed by Mr. Trump against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche reported Wednesday that the department was abandoning the plan. This announcement came after the project was suspended by a judge.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
It also came after both Democrats and some Republicans raised concerns about the lack of oversight of the fund and the possibility of payments being made to participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Mr. Trump told NBC that he thought the fund was “a great idea” and would be “disappointed” if it was not approved.
Asked if he thought those who attacked police officers on Jan. 6 should receive compensation, Mr. Trump responded, “I wouldn’t be inclined to say that, but I have to see that.” He then proceeded to make unfounded allegations and lies about the riot and those who stormed the Capitol.
On January 6, 2025, on his first day back in power, Mr. Trump granted a general pardon to the more than 1,500 people prosecuted for the events of January 6.
