By Katherine Tinsley
2:09pm PDT, Jun 29, 2025
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Retired Brigadier General
Mark Kimmitt seemed stunned by
Donald Trump's business background and how it might have influenced his administration's Saturday, June 21, military attack on Iran.
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Mark Kimmitt continued to praise Donald Trump for trying to broker a deal between the two countries.
"I'm fascinated, and candidly, I'm impressed," Kimmitt said. "I never really could understand what the two-week pause meant, or what it was for. What was left to negotiate? What were we going to expect the Iranians to offer?"
"In many ways, it was much like a Trump deal. He's trying to make a deal to buy an apartment, but all of a sudden, the apartment was destroyed," Kimmitt continued. "So where's the negotiation? So I think the use of deception and trickery in this case, first of all, was successful, but second of all saved the potential loss of American lives."
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Donald Trump claimed his airstrikes targeted Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities, which is something the pair touched upon during the interview.
"How hard is it to get accurate bomb damage assessment…from satellite imagery, if you do not have special forces on the ground actually inside a facility?" CNN star
Anderson Cooper asked Mark Kimmitt.
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"You probably will only get a 10 percent answer to that question," Mark Kimmitt told
Anderson Cooper. "I would not want to be the…bomb damage assessment teams that now have to turn to the president and say, 'We got it, we didn't get it, or we didn't get it enough.'"
"Likely there will be a need for a re-attack," Kimmitt continued, as tensions between Israel and Iran continue to escalate. "It certainly could have damaged, but probably did not destroy the facility. So we'll just have to wait and see when that information comes into the president what his next action is going to be."
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While headed to NATO, Donald Trump lost his cool when discussing Israel and Iran's decision to break the ceasefire his administration previously celebrated.
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing," Trump told reporters on Tuesday, June 24.
