Like a presidential candidate, Mr. Cruise distanced himself from his most egregious remarks, but defended his church, insisting that there was nothing strange about it.
In a particularly egregious set of remarks, she charges the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and the deputy secretary of defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, "the hard-liner of the hard-liners," with an Iraq policy tethered to the interests of Israel.
Asked about Atlas's allegations, he said, "For somebody to make those egregious, outlandish, unfair remarks that there's corruption, or some type of nefarious activity that's just totally unacceptable".
Here are some of his most egregious claims and remarks made during the conversations, which occurred when he first took office in January.
Netanyahu's remarks were egregious and almost universally denounced, in Israel as much as anywhere else.
"Oh," she is reported to have said, "those poor shopkeepers!" Then, and for many years afterwards, this ascribed remark was served up as an egregious example of the political classes missing the point.
Florida senator Marco Rubio, who also ran for president and subsequently endorsed Trump, joined others in criticizing the remarks: "Donald's comments were vulgar, egregious & impossible to justify".
The subtle remarks are the grease for the egregious.
As Trump laid out in his remarks April 26, he's looking to end "another egregious abuse of federal power," put "states back in charge" and open up now-protected areas to "tremendously positive things" — whatever that means.
"Up until now, the president had very thoughtfully calibrated his remarks on Iran, but this was an uncharacteristic and egregious error," said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
