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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Jun 27, 2025, 03:49 AM Jun 27

Senator Emerges from Classified Briefing and Promptly Accuses Trump of 'Deliberately Misleading the Public'

Source: MEDIAite

Jun 26th, 2025, 4:54 pm


Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) accused President Donald Trump of “deliberately misleading the public” after walking out of a briefing on the U.S. strikes on Iran.

Murphy, along with a host of other members of Congress, attended a briefing held by the Trump administration. In that briefing, top cabinet officials detailed the damage U.S. airstrikes had done to Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend. The strikes were meant to put an end to Iran’s nuclear capabilities and prevent the country from one day producing a nuclear weapon.

Preliminary intel, according to reporting from CNN, suggested that the damage only set Iran back by months. The Trump administration quickly rejected the report and insisted that the facilities had been completely destroyed. After Thursday’s briefing, Murphy told the press he remained unconvinced of Trump claims they the sites were “obliterated”:

To me, it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months. There’s no doubt there was damage done to the program, but the allegations that we have obliterated their program just don’t seem to stand up to reason.


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/senator-emerges-from-classified-briefing-and-promptly-accuses-trump-of-deliberately-misleading-the-public-we-have-not-obliterated-the-programs/



Full headline: Senator Emerges from Classified Briefing and Promptly Accuses Trump of ‘Deliberately Misleading the Public’: ‘We Have Not Obliterated the Programs’

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Senator Emerges from Classified Briefing and Promptly Accuses Trump of 'Deliberately Misleading the Public' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 27 OP
Dump misleading the public?! sakabatou Jun 27 #1
Shocked, just shocked, the convicted felon and his republianmushroom Jun 27 #2
I appreciate all that Senator Murphy and others do... sdfernando Jun 27 #3
What day did he not mislead the public? April 31? twodogsbarking Jun 27 #4
"Alternate Obliteration" Marcuse Jun 27 #5
I have no idea why we needed these classified briefings when the Pentagon themselves had already admitted what Trump Karasu Jun 27 #6
Trump isn't just lying... Ohioboy Jun 27 #7

republianmushroom

(20,705 posts)
2. Shocked, just shocked, the convicted felon and his
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jun 27

administration “deliberately misleading the public”

sdfernando

(5,812 posts)
3. I appreciate all that Senator Murphy and others do...
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 11:46 AM
Jun 27

I just wish that they would just come right out and say LIE! How is "deliberately mislead" not a lie???

Karasu

(1,654 posts)
6. I have no idea why we needed these classified briefings when the Pentagon themselves had already admitted what Trump
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 06:03 PM
Jun 27
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