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Critics claiming President Donald Trump threatened Los Angeles and San Diego are taking him “out of context,” according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale.
Dale took to X to call out misleading clips of Trump’s comments where he said, “Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego” while discussing the war with Iran and preventing them from obtaining nuclear weapons. Dale was responding to a more recent clip of Trump posted by liberal clipper Aaron Rupar, which Dale explained was being used by critics “as evidence Trump wasn’t taken out of context in his previous speech.”
“I see some people treating this post as evidence Trump wasn’t taken out of context in the previous speech. In fact, this post even *more* obviously takes him out of context,” Dale wrote in response to the recent clip of Trump at a rally.
“Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?” Trump said.
Dale provided the full context of Trump’s comments, arguing that he was actually saying the opposite of what many are accusing him of.
Trump’s comments can be read below:
And just as I promised, I am ensuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon…Never. They know that. They know that. And we’ll be out of there soon. And you watch those oil prices come down like a rock, and watch everything; everything else is coming down. Oil is coming down. You know, we pay less than oil, and we did that whole thing with – because that was a big operation that should have been done by past presidents for many years. It should have been done, but nobody wanted to take it on. We had no choice. Because we can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. And I’ll tell you what. Oil: a little more, maybe more than a little, but a lot of people thought it’d be 3, 4, 5 times that. When I went in, I thought it could be much higher than that. But we are paying less than under the Biden administration; he didn’t do anything. He gave you the highest inflation in history. He didn’t do anything. But you want to see trauma You want to see problems? And I said it the other day: Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles. On the way – let them hit – you want to see a horror show? You want to see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. And you want to see some bad things happen, you want to see a country that would be in freefall. We’re not going to let that happen. We protect our cities, we protect our country. We’re not letting that happen. And they’d use it too. They’d use it. They would use it.
Dale explained, “This time, Trump said right after this comment, ‘We’re not gonna let that happen. We protect our cities, we protect our country.’ (Rupar’s post includes that comment, but the caption doesn’t). And right before this comment, Trump was talking about how oil prices are not as high as people thought the war would send them. In other words, he was, as he has on previous occasions, contrasting the big damage Iran could (supposedly) do to cities with a nuclear weapon with the (supposedly) minimal harm of the war.”
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