"Trump made the comment on Air Force One this week after Sanger asked, What would the use be of repeating the bombing? You you did it for 38 days, and you did not get the political changes in Iran. After claiming he had achieved a total military victory in Iran, Trump turned on Sanger, saying, I actually think it's treason when you write, like, They're doing well militarily,' and they have no navy, no air force, no anti-anything."
"Sanger told CNN's Kaitlan Collins Friday night that it all comes down to Trump's frustration that Iran hasn't given in on the nuclear issue. Look, if if he had achieved the military goal, the political goals that he set out, not just the military goals, then the strait would be open, and Iran's nuclear program would be being dismantled right now. And it's not, he said. Maybe it will be, and maybe that's exactly how it will play out. But it certainly has not thus far."
"To the treason statement. Look, reporting is not treason, right? And you've been on the receiving end of these probably more than I have, and we all know what this is about. It is an effort to intimidate news organizations into not doing the reporting. But reporting is the fundamental First Amendment responsibility that we have to go about. And, you know, that's what the founders were trying to protect when they wrote the First Amendment."
"Sanger added, Look, he, himself, ran for office arguing that the United States made all the biggest mistakes that it could make in Afghanistan and Iraq. And he knew that from enterprising reporting that was appearing in The New York Times, on CNN, and elsewhere."
Trump claimed his Iran-related actions produced total military victory and said repeating bombing details amounted to treason. The criticism followed questions about the lack of political change in Iran after 38 days of bombing. Sanger said the real issue is frustration that Iran has not conceded on the nuclear program and that military goals did not achieve the political goals Trump set. He argued that reporting is not treason and that such labeling seeks to deter news coverage. He said the First Amendment protects reporting and that presidents should not conflate unwanted news with criminality.
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