President says in social media post that Iran tried to ‘stop Trump’ and now ‘faces renewed war with United States’

Trump says in social media post that Iran tried to ‘stop Trump’ and now ‘faces renewed war with United States’

Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran’s government interfered in the US president elections.

“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump,” his Truth Social post said, “and now faces renewed war with United States”.

Those words, written in the first hours of the bombardment of Iran, repeated the headline of an article to which he linked from Just the News, a Trump-friendly news site. “Iranian intelligence sought to undermine Trump’s re-election bid in 2020 through a variety of election influence efforts,” the article said. It also said Iran worked against him in 2024, when he beat Kamala Harris at the polls.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Much about his current reign of terror is about him suffering a narcissistic wound by losing (bigly) in 2020.

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
    19·
    4 hours ago

    So Russia, the Saudis, Israel and North Korean hackers notably helped Trump win his 2024 election. Does this mean Harris would have had the greenlight to bomb those countries?

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    121·
    4 hours ago

    Okay so this is how Narco Rubio or Netanyahu got Trump onboard with this plan. Blame Biden.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      4 hours ago

      This is all trump, not these other guys. Rubio, the anchor baby, goes along with whatever trump says. Netanyahu looooooooves this because he now has the US backing. Why in the world would you think that trump wasn’t on board? He’s feeling the wrath of no one wanting this now, but he was stupid enough to be in on it to begin with.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Why in the world would you think that trump wasn’t on board?

        Trump probably in principle agrees with it on any given day, but to go through with it, someone has to jingle keys in front of him for long enough before his dementia-addled brain gets distracted over the next gripe someone has to sell him. Like what happened in January with the Gordie Howe bridge.