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A Fox News host made a sweeping claim about war crimes. Here’s what the historical record shows.

Poynter · Louis Jacobson · last updated

Jesse Watters pointed to past US wars to defend Trump’s threat to target infrastructure, but experts say those comparisons miss key legal limits

For days, President Donald Trump has said the U.S. would attack civilian infrastructure such as power plants in Iran by the evening of April 7 if the warring countries cannot reach an agreement.

That morning, Trump said on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

Attacking civilian targets is widely considered a war crime in most cases.

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