Mohyeldin on Iran Strike: Trump Either Lied When He Said He Wanted to Give Diplomacy a Chance or He Was Dog-Walked by Netanyahu

MOHYELDIN: “I think Donald Trump tonight, by going into this war — and there are questions about the legality of it, and there’s even questions about whether he knew that this was going to happen — and I’ll say this really quickly about that. There were questions as to whether or not Israel dog-walked the prime minister — Israeli prime minister dog-walked President Trump into this war. And what I mean by that is, President Trump campaigned that he was not going to get involved in war. He talked, just the day or two before this war began, about how he wanted to give diplomacy a chance. And if you take a step back and see what really happened here, Donald Trump was either in on this ruse by the prime minister, meaning he was going to go along with what was happening with an attack on Iran, but he was lying to the American people by coming out saying, ‘Hey, I want to give diplomacy a chance. I campaigned on not starting a war.’ And at the same time, he was completely unaware of what Israel was going to do, and that the Israeli prime minister potentially was running circles around him because he saw, ‘Hey, this is a president of the United States that was either incompetent or weak or indecisive. I’m going to launch this war against Iran knowing that at some point, the political pressure domestically among Republicans, supporters of Israel and their base are going to put this pressure on the president to get involved on behalf of Israel.’ So, either way you look at it, president Donald Trump either was lying to the American public when he was telling us directly he wanted to give diplomacy a chance, so he was part of the deception of what Israel was going to do, or he didn’t know what Israel was going to do and was ultimately being goaded and dog-walked by the prime minister of Israel into this war.”