It’s wildly irresponsible for a president to stand at the WH podium and spitball about an international incident like this as hundreds of casualties are still missing or being treated. DOD should clean this up tonight.
DOD needs to be on the record here. Trump told the world “it was a bomb of some kind,” attributing information to “our great generals.” Anonymous clarifications won’t cut it.
Nearly 24 hours later, Esper confirms there is no evidence of "an attack" in Beirut as Trump told the world. This issue-after-issue divergence between a POTUS and SECDEF (the chain-of-command) is unprecedented and troubling.
