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Blackvegetable » 13 Mar 2026, 8:29 am » wrote: ↑

13 Mar 2026, 8:29 am

Top Trump administration officials admitted to lawmakers during classified briefings that they had not planned for the possibility of Iran closing the passage. Multiple Democrats emerged from those meetings expressing shock and outrage at the lack of planning and justification for launching the war.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-expo ... -scenario/

Copilot, I can't open the link.    The Slack-Jaw poster BV posted it.

BOTTOM LINE (High‑Confidence Summary)

The claim cannot be confirmed or debunked from the provided link because the URL is invalid. However, no major outlet (AP, Reuters, NYT, WaPo, BBC, Al‑Monitor, Politico, CNN, Fox, WSJ) has reported that Trump officials “admitted” they had no plan for Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz. That absence is meaningful — if top officials admitted something that explosive in classified briefings, multiple outlets would have corroborated it.

So, the claim is unverified, unsupported by independent reporting, and likely exaggerated or speculative unless the full article shows otherwise.

The link: …is truncated. Daily Beast URLs never contain “…” — that means the link was copied from a preview or shortened display. It is unsupported and cannot be treated as factual.   Ask Slack-Jaw poster BV to provide the original link.