US commerce secretary erroneously said no Americans have died in Iran war, Trump claims
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President said Howard Lutnick had Venezuela operation on his mind when he was discussing Iran war on CNBC Donald Trump has claimed his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, erroneously stated that no Americans had been killed in the war with Iran because he was thinking about a previous US operation, in Venezuela. The claim, at odds with the Pentagon’s count of 18 US service members dead in the US-Israel war on Iran,…
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