Radio host Howard Stern in 2002 asked Trump if he supported the looming invasion.
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“I opposed going in, and I did oppose it, despite the media saying no, yes, no, I opposed going in”, Trump said in a almost 10-minute-long rant before a speech in Cleveland that was meant to be a reveal of his education policy.
But the stats on how long Trump actually spoke about education at the invitation-only event are unimpressive, as he spent a significant portion of his allotted time there insisting that he had always opposed the war in Iraq – a statement that fact-checkers have consistently and definitively deemed false. Trump slams “lies” about Iraq war stance MORE took us out, along with President Obama, letting ISIS fill that big awful void. “This was before the war started, by a very short distance”.
“Yeah, I guess so”, Trump answered.
NOTE: Earlier, Hillary Clinton said she had “taken responsibility” for her earlier support of Iraq war, but Trump “was for the war in Iraq”.
“Similarly, an ABC News/Washington Post poll from early August found 42% of voters gave Trump high marks for “[telling] it like it is regardless of whether or not it’s politically correct”. He did not say where the $20 billion in funding would come from, but it’s possible he was referring to Title I money for disadvantaged students, funded at about $15.5 billion right now.
But as the war dragged on, Trump’s criticism of the war escalated.
While eligibility for vouchers varies state-by-state, Trump promised to campaign nationwide and call upon individual states and cities to elect officials in support of school choice. “I would never have handled it that way”.
“What was the objective of this whole thing?” he continued. And what about the people coming back with no arms and legs? All those Iraqi kids who’ve been blown to pieces. “All this for nothing!”
“My opponent was for the war in Iraq”, the former secretary of State said on Wednesday night at the military-focused forum.
“Well, he has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps, because perhaps shouldn’t be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know”, Trump said. Despite the media saying, ‘No, .
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On Thursday, Esquire added an editor’s note to the article, rebuffing Trumps claims.
