President Trump has sensationally suggested that he was involved in the pager attacks in Lebanon that killed dozens of people, including children.

Trump, 79, said in an interview with TIME that, despite not being president at the time, he supported the clandestine operation, which was carried out by Israeli operatives on September 17 and 18 last year.

TIME sat down with the president in the Oval Office to discuss his Gaza peace deal, which has brought about a shaky ceasefire between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces. In the course of the interview, the magazine’s reporter “brought up Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah and regime change in Syria,” causing the president to blurt out the previously unknown details.

“All of those attacks were done under my auspices, you know, with Israel do

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