Leavitt: Trump ‘Always The Final Decision-Maker’ On Iran Action

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Leavitt said that US airstrikes in June destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities, even though special envoy Steve Witkoff said over the weekend that Tehran was “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.”

According to Leavitt, the success of Operation Midnight Hammer “does not mean that Iran may never try again to establish a nuclear program that could directly threaten the United States and our allies abroad, and that’s what the president wants to ensure can never happen again.”

Leavitt also criticized a recent spate of stories speculating on when or whether Trump would order an attack in the Middle East.

“The president is always the final decision-maker around here,” she said. “And I’ve seen a lot of sensationalist reporting over the past day that is just completely untrue, and anyone speculating to the media, hiding behind an anonymous source, pretending to know what President Trump is thinking or a decision he will make with respect to action against Iran has no idea what they’re talking about.”

Leavitt prefaced Trump’s State of the Union Address by arguing that it will be “a great speech” that will focus on how he’s fulfilling his campaign pledges to the American people.

Leavitt said that the speech will also focus on those individual Americans who contributed mightily to the nation’s development over the centuries, to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday on Independence Day in July.

“He’s going to share the stories of GREAT American heroes who exemplify bravery and the spirit of 1776,” Leavitt told the Fox News program. “And the president is, of course, going to tout his administration’s record-setting accomplishments over the past year while laying out an ambitious agenda to continue making the American dream more attainable for working-class people across the country.”