Fox News Analyst Says Trump ‘Knows’ A U.S. Missile Blasted Girls School In Iran
Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin, who was personally attacked by former colleague Pete Hegseth months ago over Iran, may have invited the Trump administration’s wrath again on Monday. (Watch the video below.)
Griffin, the conservative channel’s national security correspondent, told anchor Bret Baier that President Donald Trump “knows” the U.S. bombed a girls school in Iran, killing a reported 175 at the start of the war. The president’s wavering responses to deny blame for the horrific strike have been an attempt to “muddy the waters,” she added.
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After directly claiming it was Iran that hit the school in Minab, Trump slightly softened his stance on Monday. He said the “very generic” Tomahawk missile involved in the tragedy was in the hands of many countries and perhaps Iran as well.
Baier asked Griffin about the president’s remarks.
“That was a bit surprising to me because, basically, the U.S. has Tomahawks,” Griffin replied. “Tomahawks have to be fired from either submarines or from warships. The Brits and the Australians have Tomahawks, but they’re not part of this conflict. And then you also have the Japanese, who are in a testing phase. So it seems highly unlikely that it would be anyone’s Tomahawk other than a U.S. Tomahawk that hit that school. And I think the president knows that. He just knows that this is certainly a mistake, a big mistake, and it’s being investigated. But, he is trying to sort of muddy the waters by talking about the Tomahawks.”
Reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as a Reuters story citing unnamed U.S. military investigators, point the finger at the U.S. for the bombing of Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school. The school was next to a naval base run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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“Are we sure that it was a Tomahawk that hit that school?” Baier followed.
“There’s no evidence that the Iranians fired anything at the school,” Griffin replied. “If you look at the satellite imageries, and there’ve been a lot of investigations from the air, from these satellite photos showing the impact and showing the likelihood that it was a Tomahawk.”
Griffin was singled out by Defense Secretary Hegseth in a press conference for questioning the completeness of U.S. strikes last year on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Noting to Hegseth that some of the uranium could have been moved beforehand, the former “Fox & Friends” host snapped.
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“Of course, we’re watching every single aspect,” Hegseth replied. “But Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally what the president says.”
