'Pete, I think you were the first one to say, "Let's do it"': Moment Trump suggests unpopular Iran war was his Secretary of War's idea

Speaking Monday at a conference in Tennesse, Trump said: 'I called a lot of our great people... and I said, "Let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East.'


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