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.
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.
It depends on when he has last had his dementia shot. He goes in and out of clear thinking.