President Donald Trump’s genocidal threat against Iran has already left a marring mark on history despite his last-minute retreat, according to author Anand Giridharadas.
“No one in that part of the world will forget that for generations, it will always have been true that the leader of the United States said that,” Giridharadas told The Daily Beast Podcast host Joanna Coles.
Giridharadas argued that Trump’s talk of erasing a “whole civilization” qualifies as “possibly the worst thing any American leader has said in modern memory,” and reveals the collapse of decades of American precedent and principles.
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