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Leavitt Melts Down After Being Quizzed on Trump ‘War Crimes’
March 30, 2026
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Kevin Lamarque / REUTERSWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has struggled to defend concerns that President Donald Trump’s latest wild threat to escalate the war in Iran could amount to war crimes.In a social media tirade before the markets opened on Monday, the president warned that if the Iranian regime did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the most critical oil chokepoint in the world, the U.S.
would “completely obliterate” their electricity-generating plants, oil wells, Kharg Island, and possibly all their desalination plants.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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