Iran Blows Up Trump’s ‘Annihilated’ Brag by Downing Two Jets

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President Donald Trump has spent weeks insisting that Iran’s military had been “annihilated” and its skies were effectively defenseless.

Then Iran shot down not one, but two U.S. aircraft.

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