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The concession comes after months of claiming the exact opposite.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-iran-war-not-over_n_6ababc2ee4b0cdca1abdc2fa

WASHINGTON ― After having claimed dozens of times during the spring and summer that his war against Iran was effectively over and that he had won it, President Donald Trump is now admitting that neither assertion was true.

For the second time in as many days, Trump on Monday said his war that began seven months ago today is still ongoing. “We’re going to win that war very soon,” he told reporters during an Oval Office photo opportunity.

The message was the same the day previous, in an interview with Fox News during his visit to a golf tournament outside Chicago. “I think what’s going to happen is we’re going to win the war very soon,” he said.

The statements come after the several dozens of times in recent months that Trump has claimed the war was essentially already over. They reflect a new effort by Trump and the GOP to convince angry midterm election voters that the war ― and the price hikes that have accompanied it ― will end soon.

“Let me tell you, we’ve won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the ― in the first hour, it was over,” he bragged at a March 11 rally in Kentucky.

On numerous other occasions, Trump has said a peace deal was days or even hours away, or that he could secure such an agreement because Iran was “begging” for one.

“They’re willing to give us everything,” he said at a June 8 speech in South Carolina, in which he also claimed he would “declare total victory” in the next two weeks.

Trump’s White House did not respond to HuffPost queries asking why the president was now changing his analysis about the war and who had won it.

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