The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Im A MAGA senator tried desperately to justify Donald Trump’s big Iranian lie in a toe-curling segment on CNN. Last summer, the president claimed to have wiped out Iran’s nuclear facilities in a double-team strike with Israel. He said the Islamic Republic had been just “weeks away” from developing a nuclear weapon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined in, boasting that U.S. forces had “obliterated” Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. Read more at The Daily Beast.