President Donald Trump is receiving some surprising praise from an elected Democrat.
However, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) is backing the president on something that Trump says he did not do.
Moskowitz said Trump made the right call by allowing Israel’s surprise attack against Iran to “go forward.”
Yet, Trump has denied any such involvement.
The White House has stressed Israel’s independence, and Trump has said he had no role in the strikes.
The strikes came despite Trump’s goal of negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran.
The latest round of talks was cancelled Sunday after Israel’s attack, which Trump had publicly opposed.
Moskowitz argued that Trump effectively co-signed the strikes by failing to stop Israel.
This is a sentiment that has also been shared by certain America First critics of Trump on the Right.
During an appearance on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” ,” Moskowitz said:
“I have vast disagreements, obviously, with President Trump, but, obviously, we had some knowledge that this was going to happen, probably could have stopped it, U.S. presidents have that ability.
“President Trump let it go forward, and he got it right.”
The strikes have opened up a divide on the Right between “America First” populists and hawkish Republicans who have expressed support for Israel and its military aims.
While non-interventionists are wary of U.S. entanglement, Iran hawks in both parties claim that Israel is doing what’s necessary to stop the Iranian regime from getting a nuclear bomb.
“This president decided to let the Israelis finally start dismantling that program because the Iranians chose not to do that themselves,” Moskowitz said.
“For administration [after] administration after administration, we have been trying to delay this day, delay what now is inevitable, which was that there was intelligence that Iran…was near getting a nuclear weapon,” Moskowitz said.
“And so, this, unfortunately, was Iran’s choice.”
Trump has been a little ambiguous about America’s role in the conflict.
While he has called for peace, he also hasn’t ruled out the possibility of America getting involved in the future.
He has also stressed to critics like Tucker Carlson that there can’t be peace if Iran gets a nuclear bomb.
“For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon,” Trump told The Atlantic.
“So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.”
According to reports, Trump overruled an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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