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When President Donald Trump landed in Florida for a Friday campaign rally, he dismissed comments from one of his own ambassadors that the US could strike Iran this weekend as part of his illegal nearly eight-month war — but once the commander-in-chief took the stage, he changed his tune, threatening more bloodshed.

In an interview with online commentator Mario Nawfal published earlier Friday, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, who is also Trump’s special envoy to Syria and Iraq, said: “Could there be a strike this weekend? Absolutely.”

“The president is very clear. He’s open and available and accessible to a deal. And we’ve been at the table for months and months and months,” he continued, noting that in addition to the nuclear priorities and aiming to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the US is “in a bargain for unfreezing assets, releasing sanctions, no more kinetic engagement, [and] supplying the needed help to........

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