Mike Pence Says He Has ‘Every Confidence’ Trump Will Eventually Snap on Iran

The time to make a deal has come and gone, according to the ex-vice president.

Mike Pence told Fox News on Monday morning he believes President Donald Trump will eventually ditch his latest push to strike a peace agreement with Iran and turn to what he should really be doing — bombing the enemy into submission.

“I honestly think the time has come for the president of the United States to unleash the armed forces of the United States, strike the remaining facilities in Iran, take down and degrade their ability to project force, not only in the Strait [of Hormuz] but across the region,” Pence said. “Look, one does not make peace with one’s enemy, one makes peace with one’s defeated enemy.”

He continued, “Given [Iran’s] posture and their attitudes and even denying negotiations are happening, I have every confidence there will come a moment where my old running mate has had enough, and we oughta turn loose the greatest military.”

Pence shared his take one day after Trump said a peace deal was “imminent.”

“I’m not looking to kill people, ’cause people die,” Trump told reporters on Sunday aboard Air Force One. “A lot of people die. And we don’t want that.”

Trump said he was ready to pummel Iran with the “biggest attack since World War II,” but held off after the country’s leaders and other Middle Eastern nations lobbied him to pause the strike— a claim Iran’s theocratic leaders said was bogus right after.

America’s Newsroom co-host Bill Hemmer pointed to a Fox News poll from July 17-20 which showed 48% of respondents believed no deal between the U.S. and Iran would ever come together; another 25% said they believed the war would end with a bad deal.

Pence said he was more optimistic than that, and gave Trump kudos for launching the war in the first place.

But he said it was time for the U.S. and Israel to “finish the job.”

Watch above.

Jason Cohen contributed to this report.

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