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“Trump didn’t realize UNTIL TEN MINUTES BEFOREHAND that a planned airstrike would kill over a hundred people and would therefore be grossly disproportionate to the loss of a UAV?” Conway, lawyer and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwaySpecial counsel investigating DeVos for potential Hatch Act violation: report George and Kellyanne Conway honor Ginsburg Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE, tweeted Friday. “To say this is amateur hour would defame amateurs.”

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"Resign. If you didn’t know this until it was almost too late, you’re even more of an idiot than people think you are," Conway tweeted in response to Trump. "Do the country and the world a favor. Go back to real estate, where the worst you can do is kill banks."

Trump didn’t realize UNTIL TEN MINUTES BEFOREHAND that a planned airstrike would kill over a hundred people and would therefore be grossly disproportionate to the loss of a UAV?



To say this is amateur hour would defame amateurs. — George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 21, 2019

Resign. If you didn’t know this until it was almost too late, you’re even more of an idiot than people think you are. Do the country and the world a favor. Go back to real estate, where the worst you can do is kill banks. https://t.co/k7z9KW4Elt — George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 21, 2019

Conway’s comments came after Trump confirmed via Twitter that the U.S. had been "cocked and loaded" to retaliate against Iran, but that he called off the mission at the last minute after learning that 150 Iranians would die.

"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone," Trump tweeted.

Iranian officials said Friday that Trump warned them that an attack was imminent. The officials also said Friday that they were informed of the planned attack in a "short period" before it was initially scheduled to be carried out.

“In his message, Trump said he was against any war with Iran and wanted to talk to Tehran about various issues,” one Iranian official said.

U.S. and Iranian officials are disputing the location of the drone when it was shot down late Wednesday, with Iran arguing that it had entered the country's airspace.

The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said the U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk drone was shot down by an Iranian missile system in an “unprovoked attack."

Centcom denied claims from Iranian officials stating that the drone had flown over Hormozgan Province in southern Iran.

"This attack is an attempt to disrupt our ability to monitor the area following recent threats to international shipping and free flow of commerce, " Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella, commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command, said in a statement.

The New York Times reported late Thursday that Trump had ordered a strike overnight against Iran, but pulled back.

Following that report, Conway railed against Trump in a late-night tweet that he has since pinned to his Twitter page, slamming the commander in chief as an “erratic, unstable, incompetent, ignorant, intellectually lazy, narcissistic, and sociopathic man whose judgment no serious, intelligent person trusts.”