Ben Shapiros Claim on MAGA Support for US-Iran War Fact-Checked

Ben Shapiro calls Trump's Iran strategy "the single bravest foreign policy move" of his lifetime, praising bold reassertion of American authority on the world stage.

The stars of the conservative media movement have been duking it out – in extremely personal terms – over Donald Trump’s decision to enter the United States into a conflict with Iran. While it can be hard to cleanly group the warring factions, much of the fighting has centered on disagreements about whether the US is too deferential to Israeli interests. Those arguing that position most prominently include former Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, while conservative media personalities like Mark Levin (a current Fox News host) and Ben Shapiro have strongly supported both the American intervention in Iran and collaboration with Israel.

The United States is winning. Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken — or rooting for a different outcome. That may sound blunt. But it happens to be true. The Iranian regime’s best remaining strategy is not military. It is political. Tehran is not counting on its air defenses, which are being shredded.

So the real question is not whether Iran is losing. The evidence suggests it is.

And then he bothered to look at the evidence. He went through the documents. He found a far more prosaic grift and sexual abuse story in which Jeffrey Epstein bilked rich people for money and used that money to pursue his sick fetishes. But Joe was not having any of that, and he continued to posit that somehow the real story of the Iran war and everything else is that Donald Trump is somehow being blackmailed by Epstein material.

Syndicated columnist Ben Shapiro. ... Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the interpretation of facts and data. ... If you've been following coverage of the Trump administration's military action against Iran, you've probably ...

The Iranian regime's primary remaining lever is the hope that Americans will convince themselves they are losing -- even as evidence suggests otherwise. The United States is winning. And Tehran knows it. Ben Shapiro is a national columnist. ... Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the interpretation of facts and data.

The Iranian regime's primary remaining lever is the hope that Americans will convince themselves they are losing — even as evidence suggests otherwise. The United States is winning. And Tehran knows it. Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author.

If you've been following coverage of the Trump administration's military action against Iran, you've probably noticed something: A lot of people are determined to convince you that the United States is losing.