HBO’s John Oliver accused President Trump and the rest of the administration of “stretching the truth to breaking point” on Iran on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. However, Oliver left out some basic facts that would have made their comments seem much more reasonable.
With multiple allusions to a press conference by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, where he attacked the media’s habit of not talking enough about the military’s success, Oliver huffed, “And I’ve got to say, for all this administration’s disdain for ‘cable news spin,’ and insistence that people ‘report the reality,’ they’re sure stretching the truth to breaking point here because even as Trump’s claiming that we’ve won, the Pentagon’s now requesting $200 billion in extra funding for this operation—sure suggesting it’s going to be going on for a while.”
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