The Daily Blast: Trump Hit by Damning Leaks on Iran Decision as Polls Turn Brutal Fast

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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With Donald Trump’s war on Iran getting worse, a new report in The New York Times reveals damning details about the runup to the decision. We learn that Trump’s case rests on lies about the “imminent threat” Iran poses, and that he publicly misrepresented his own top general’s misgivings about the invasion. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arguably misled congressional leaders, and JD Vance privately called for going big, undercutting his “noninterventionist” cred. This comes as a new CNN poll finds a whopping 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s war, and a Reuters poll finds support at an abysmal 27 percent. We talked to Mark Jacob, who has a good piece for his “Stop the Presses” Substack on Trump’s lawbreaking. We discuss why public impressions of his violent lawlessness are turning voters against the war, what will happen in the midterms if things get worse, and how Trump is assuming the powers of a mad dictator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. Donald Trump's rationale for waging war on Iran is coming under withering scrutiny.
0:47.6	A new report in the New York Times shows that his deliberations were even more chaotic and
0:52.7	unsurious than we knew. This comes as the first
0:56.4	round of polling has been brutal for Trump, showing shockingly low public support for his war.
1:02.4	This looks very different from how initial debates over war typically unfold. What explains it?
1:09.4	Mark Jacob has a good piece on his substack, Stop the Presses, that links together
1:14.2	Trump's lawbreaking on multiple fronts. We're going to talk about whether this already entrenched
1:19.9	sense of Trump as a mad king is what's turning the public against his war. Mark, good to have you on.
1:27.3	Thanks for having me. So the Times has a new
1:30.3	expoise laying out how Trump decided to go to war, and boy, is it damning. It shows that Trump
1:36.0	lurched between saying he wants to reach a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons on one side and then
1:41.7	saying he wants to overthrow its regime on the other.
1:44.9	It all shows his case for war rested on lies about Iran as an imminent threat, and Trump
1:50.4	publicly misrepresented what his own top general told him.
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