Defending his commerce secretary, Trump says 18 Americans have died in Iran – live
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Trump says ‘Sec. Lutnick had Venezuela on his mind when he said nobody was killed’ after the commerce secretary’s erroneous claim in a CNBC interview Sign up for US Breaking News emails Donald Trump is doing his version of damage control after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick erroneously claimed no Americans have died during the US war on Iran.
“The way the president is playing Iran…there haven’t been American deaths, it’s really just an economic choke-out,” Lutnick said Wednesday on CNBC while explaining his view that the US bond market would stabilize. Continue reading...
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