Trump Risks ‘Nuremberg’ Reckoning Over War Orders: General
April 7, 2026
The Daily Beast
CNNPresident Donald Trump’s war on Iran could come back to bite him years down the line, a retired general has warned.Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson, who served in the U.S. Army for over three decades, gave the 79-year-old commander in chief a history lesson as the clock ticks toward Trump’s Tuesday night deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.“Well, we already knew that Donald Trump was a pretty bad president, but now we know that he’s an absolutely terrible commander in chief as well,” Anderson told CNN News Central on Tuesday morning.
“This guy is just not competent in terms of leading this force. He has not set clear objectives—clear, definable objectives—that the military can truly execute.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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