White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said that President Donald Trump’s claim that the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, was caused by a bomb has not been ruled out—coming after a top Pentagon official said it was likely caused by an accident.
Trump, on several occasions this week, suggested that the deadly blast may have been an attack via “a bomb of some kind,” citing comments made by generals. It prompted Defense Secretary Mark Esper to say that he believes it was an accident.
