Donald Trump told reporters today that no American soldier has been killed in the Iran war in “seven, six months.”
An Iranian missile hit a barracks in Jordan on July 17 while American soldiers slept, killing three of them. Isabella Gonzales was 19. Two days later, Michael Emmanuel Swinton died in Iraq during the controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone.
The Pentagon moved those four off the war’s official death toll that month, filing them under a new category called “Overseas Operations” because they died after Trump declared a ceasefire. In September, when Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said nobody had been killed, Trump corrected him. “18 people were killed in Iran!” he wrote.
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Trump offers White House press secretary job to UFC CEO Dana White, “a violent Fighter and Warrior,” and asks him to bring fighters as “assistants.”
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