Brett Meiselas
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Every single day.
Now, you know, oddly, the same amount of troops at this moment were killed,
throughout this war.
And it's just like, oh yeah, it's just something that happened.
And he tries to downplay that number as if it's nothing.
Each of those people are individuals who have families, who had full lives ahead of them, who were taking the sacrifice for our country.
And I just don't think that Donald Trump treats it with the gravity that that sort of thing deserves.
And it's appalling to witness just as an American citizen.
Yeah, and what does it mean to mandatorily request something?
I mean, the things he said just make no sense.
But, you know, throughout this entire process, I think what we've seen is Iran has continuously accused the United States of being difficult to negotiate with.
And we've seen this so many times, right?
But the thing they keep saying is that the U.S.
keeps moving the goalposts.
And Ben, we saw that.
um you know back before the war even began when we were dealing with the omani mediator uh who said that we were incredibly close to reaching a deal back then a deal that was what we had heard was actually a pretty strong deal um but
The reality is, in covering this whole war, one of the most difficult parts is that there's really not a whole lot of people you can trust when it comes to things about these conversations.
Like, you can't really trust Trump at all.
It's hard to trust the Iranian regime.
However, as we kind of reflect back on the past few months of this thing, what we've seen is, unfortunately, the Iranian regime has proven to be a lot more accurate than the information coming out of our own White House.