Fox News' Sean Hannity literally used the Pythagorean theorem to make his case for attacking Iran
Sean Hannity, geometry nerd? "A-squared, B-squared equals C-squared," he said on his Fox News show Thursday night, after The New York Times reported that President Trump had approved then apparently aborted a military strike against Iranian targets in retaliation for Iran shooting down a U.S. drone. While fellow Fox News prime-time pundit Tucker Carlson is publicly and, reportedly, privately counseling Trump not to lead the U.S. into war with Iran, Hannity appears to be all-in. "Radical Islamic mullahs married to weapons of mass destruction, nukes, equals a potential holocaust," he said. "We can't let that happen. That's it, it's mathematical."
The current tensions with Iran started when Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of an international deal that, according to the Trump administration and United Nations, has been successfully preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, though it did not address Tehran's non-nuclear meddling in the Middle East.
While Hannity was laying out his formula for war, former Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka repeated, "Trust the president." Among those who don't trust the president on this is George Conway, Trump critic and husband of current Trump White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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