White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly also insisted that Trump ‘always had the full picture of the conflict.‘
Evidence
Pete Hegseth Is Misleading Trump and Us About Iran War (The New Republic)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: American military reports were overly optimistic and non-critical. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 825
Related
- The White House denies that the Pentagon chief misinformed Donald Trump about the operation in the Middle East. (similarity 0.87)
- Current Pentagon rhetoric is overly optimistic and risks misinforming both the public and the president. (similarity 0.83)
- Hegseth’s assessments regarding the conflict with Iran were ‘overly optimistic’ and did not reflect battlefield realities. (similarity 0.82)