The real reason for Trump's strike against Iran
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The real reason for Trump’s Iran war gets exposed. Brian interviews Ro Khanna, Jon Favreau, Lina Khan and Charles Duhigg.
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| 0:00.0 | The real reason for Trump's war with Iran gets exposed, and I've got four interviews, Ro Khanna, |
| 0:05.6 | John Favreau, Lena Kahn, and journalist Charles Duhigg. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening |
| 0:09.9 | to No Lie. So I know that the inclination, watching Trump engage in a war with Iran now, |
| 0:18.2 | might be to mock the idea that this guy has no plan. But I don't think |
| 0:21.5 | that's true. There is one longstanding principle that is always at play with Trump, and that is that |
| 0:26.3 | he does nothing unless it helps himself. He is a self-interested player. And Iran helps Trump in one |
| 0:32.3 | really big way, which Trump himself has dropped hints about all over social media. For example, |
| 0:38.3 | on true social, |
| 0:43.9 | on Saturday morning, while the bombing was underway, Trump wrote, Iran tried to interfere in 2020, |
| 0:50.0 | 2024 elections to stop Trump and now faces renewed war with the United States. So first off, |
| 0:54.4 | Trump doesn't care about foreign countries meddling in our elections. If he did, he would be bombing Russia right now. So why then would Trump invoke Iran meddling in our elections as he bombs |
| 1:00.3 | that country? It's because, put simply, he is trying to validate the claim that our elections |
| 1:05.0 | are not secure so that he can use that as a pretext to usurp control of the next election. |
| 1:10.3 | Here's an excerpt from the Washington |
| 1:12.1 | Post reporting just a couple of days ago, quote, pro-Trump activists who say they are in |
| 1:16.6 | coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China |
| 1:21.7 | interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock |
| 1:26.9 | extraordinary presidential |
| 1:27.9 | powers over voting, end quote. |
| 1:30.5 | Now, I have a gripe with this. |
| 1:32.2 | Declaring a national emergency would not, quote, unlock extraordinary presidential powers |
| 1:36.8 | over voting. |
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