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Trump Says He Really Does Want Iran to Bomb San Diego and Los Angeles

President Donald Trump clearly gets a kick out of imagining Iran destroying American cities. Speaking at a rally in San Antonio Wednesday night, Trump doubled down on the outlandish fallacy that anyone complaining about high gas prices should consider the alternative: that Iran could strike Los Angeles or San Diego. “But you wanna see trauma? You wanna…

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Trump appears to reframe 'let them hit’ comment during San Antonio rallyDuring a San Antonio rally, President Trump appeared to reframe his earlier remarks that Iran could "hit" San Diego or Los Angeles, suggesting Iran would only do so if it had nuclear weapons. His comments followed criticism after he told a Nebraska crowd that Iran could "take out" the cities.

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