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As calls for transparency grow, President Donald Trump has waved away the idea of accepting U.S. responsibility for the massacre of schoolchildren in Minab, Iran, on the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s war — and has suggested, heinously, that photo evidence of U.S. munitions used on the school “are AI.”

Asked about a letter from Democrats this week calling for the release of the U.S. military’s investigation into the bombing of the elementary girls’ school that killed 168 people, including over 100 children, Trump refused to say if that investigation would ever be released to the public.

“You know, I don’t think anyone’s ever going to be able to say what happened there,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

This is despite widespread acknowledgement that the U.S. was behind the strike, including within internal U.S. military investigations, as well as video and photo evidence showing U.S. Tomahawk missiles and missile fragments being used on the site of the elementary girls’ school on February 28, the day of the U.S. and Israel’s initial strikes on Iran.

Later, Trump was asked about the photo evidence, as well as recent reporting finding........

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