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Fact check: Trump denies saying Iran war would last weeks
Original: Fact check: Trump’s attempt to pretend he didn’t say the Iran war would last mere ‘weeks’
CNN has published a fact check accusing President Trump of trying to deny his earlier claim that a war with Iran would last only weeks. The piece says he made the 'weeks' prediction before later disavowing it, and fact checkers are walking through the record of his statements. The item is circulating among readers tracking US-Iran tensions and Trump's shifting public positions on the conflict.
Why now: Ongoing scrutiny of Trump's statements about the Iran conflict as US-Iran tensions remain in the news
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