Overview
- Bloomberg reported Saturday that multiple insiders said outside allies helped push President Trump to launch last month’s U.S. campaign against Iran.
- Those sources named Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, with one person briefed saying Murdoch spoke with Trump several times urging action.
- State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggot rejected the account, saying the sources did not know what they were talking about and asserting there is no division within the administration.
- The report said some senior advisers were more muted about war, citing Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
- Joe Kent resigned as head of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest and alleged Trump was manipulated by Israel into the decision.