'Completely flabbergasted': NYT reporter melts down on CNN over Trump's blunders
Source: Raw Story · Bias: Far Left
Summary
A New York Times reporter melted down during a segment on CNN on Wednesday during a discussion about President Donald Trump's war in Iran. Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a reporter with the New York Times, said she is "completely flabbergasted" by the Trump administration's negotiations with the Iranian regime. Trump has recently rejected two offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global waterway that accounts for 20% of the world's energy trade, because the Iranian regime refused to give up its nuclear weapons. She was also taken aback by the seeming inability of Trump to predict that the war would turn from a military conflict to an asymmetrical war. "How did we not know this? I mean, this is the thing that I find completely baffling," Navarro told CNN's Erin Burnett on her show, "OutFront." "Sir, you were there in the Middle East," she added, talking to the former Maj. Gen. James "Spider" Marks, who was also on the panel. "I was there in the Middle East. You don't have to be an old person to remember all this stuff. This was not so long ago that we were just in the Middle East. Biden basically lost his presidency because of the pullout from Afghanistan.""This was just a hot minute ago. So I am completely flabbergasted that they don't understand asymmetrical warfare, that they don't understand getting into the Middle East is going to cost you a lot of things," she continued. "All these presidents knew that if you did this, Iran was going to, because of geography, do this. President Trump, for reasons that are still inexplicable, decided, 'You know what, I don't care.'"
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