White House: Trump Does Not Rule Out Boots on Ground in Iran

The White House said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump does not rule out deploying ground forces to Iran, after a Democratic senator emerged from a classified briefing warning that current objectives of the war would likely require a ground troop deployment. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, asked about the senator’s remarks, said Trump “does not rule options out as commander in chief” and cautioned against taking at face value “anything that a Democrat on Capitol Hill says right now about the president’s thinking.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) made the warning after a closed-door military and intelligence briefing earlier on Tuesday, saying he left “more dissatisfied and angry” than from any briefing in his 15 years in the Senate....