Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) referred to as out President Donald Trump’s resolution to insert the US into the conflict between Israel and Iran, saying it’s “not our struggle.”
“Each time America is on the verge of greatness, we get entangled in one other international conflict,” Greene, a longtime Trump supporter, wrote on social media Saturday evening. “There wouldn’t be bombs falling on the folks of Israel if Netanyahu had not dropped bombs on the folks of Iran first. Israel is a nuclear armed nation. This isn’t our struggle. Peace is the reply.”
Greene’s social media publish got here proper earlier than Trump introduced on Truth Social that the US had accomplished a “very profitable assault” on three nuclear websites in Iran.
“Congratulations to our nice American Warriors,” Trump wrote Saturday night. “There may be not one other army within the World that might have carried out this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thanks in your consideration to this matter.”
Vice President JD Vance mentioned Sunday on “Meet The Press” that the U.S. is not at war with Iran, as an alternative the nation is at conflict with Iran’s nuclear program.
“What we did is we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program,” Vance mentioned. “I believe we set that program again considerably, and we did it with out endangering the lives of the American pilots. That’s an unimaginable factor, and I believe all of us needs to be proud — no matter our politics, we needs to be happy with what these guys achieved. A really, very high-impact mission beneath loads of strain.”
Each Vance and Trump have said that the US will reply if Iran retaliates towards the U.S.
Congressional Democrats have questioned the legality of Trump deciding to bomb Iran with out Congress’s approval and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mentioned Trump’s transfer is “completely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Most Republicans have publicly supported Trump’s resolution, together with Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Nevertheless, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) pushed back on social media, writing, “Why didn’t you name us again from trip to vote on army motion if there was a critical menace to our nation?”
Trump hit back at Massie, writing on Fact Social that he isn’t MAGA and he’s a “damaging drive.”
“He’s a easy minded ‘grandstander’ who thinks it’s good politics for Iran to have the best stage Nuclear weapon, whereas on the similar time yelling ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ at each probability they get,” Trump wrote, calling Massie “weak,” a “pathetic loser” and a “lazy, grandstanding, nonproductive politician.”