Major White House Split Leaks as Trump’s War Spirals

The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Im Senior White House officials are reportedly having “buyer’s remorse” over the Iran war as the realization sets in that President Trump was “high on his own supply” when he launched it. That bombshell is buried inside a new Axios dispatch. It lays bare a deep fracture inside Trump’s inner circle , now navigating week three of a bloody conflict that has claimed at least 13 American lives, left more than 1,400 Iranians dead, and produced one of the worst civilian atrocities attributed to the U.S. military in decades. A source close to the administration told the outlet that key officials had not been fully on board with Trump’s plans before the 79-year-old president overruled them all. “He ended up saying, ‘I just want to do it,’” the source said. “He grossly overestimated his ability to topple the regime short of sending in ground troops.” Read more at The Daily Beast.