The president offered the details in a call with ABC's Jonathan Karl, also claiming that a regime insider had reached out to negotiate.

"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," the president says. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead” ...

“Hey, I just left the White House room, just leaving now. The president did a lunch with network news anchors and offered a bit of a preview of his speech. One notable thing: we did talk about Iran,” ...

ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl recalled the time President Donald Trump claimed the Justice Department would go after him and his network as one instance when he was in "fear" of his safety.

Evidently, Trump still feels he’s got the Midas touch, that he’s a geopolitical savant who can eliminate the dastardly Islamic Republic and bring “freedom” to Iranians—his professed top priority in ...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. had identified potential successors to Iran’s supreme leader before launching strikes, but claimed they were “all dead” after the opening wave of attacks that ...