⁍ President Donald Trump on Tuesday cast a massive explosion in Beirut as a possible attack, despite statements by Lebanese leaders that it was likely caused by highly explosive material that had been stored at warehouses in the capital for years.

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⁍ ‘The United States stands ready to assist Lebanon,’ Trump said at a White House briefing of Tuesday’s explosion, which killed at least 78 people and injured thousands.

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⁍ When asked later about his depiction of the explosion, Trump said that he had met with some U.S. generals who feel the blast was not ‘some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event

– The US is “ready to assist Lebanon” in the wake of Tuesday’s deadly blast in Beirut, President Trump said Tuesday, but he later walked it back. “The United States stands ready to assist Lebanon,’ Trump said at a White House briefing, per Reuters. “It looks like a terrible attack. … They seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind.” Trump later told reporters that he had met with US generals who believed the blast “was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event,” the AP reports.