Trump says missiles were ‘paid for’ by Obama

By Spencer Neale

Published January 8, 2020 4:52pm ET

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Trump says missiles were ‘paid for’ by Obama — President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. | (Patrick Semansky/AP)

President Trump claimed the Obama administration “paid for” the ballistic missiles that Iran used to strike an Iraqi-U.S. coalition military base in western Iraq on Wednesday morning.

“The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration,” Trump said in the grand foyer of the White House.

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