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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Thomas Massie is accusing President Donald Trump of falling short of his campaign pledges with his Saturday night strikes on Iran.
“I feel a bit misled,” Massie told Fox News Digital in a Sunday afternoon interview. “I didn’t think he would let neocons determine his foreign policy and drag us into another war.”
“Other people feel the same way, who supported Trump — I think the political danger to him is he induces a degree of apathy in the Republican base, and they fail to show up to keep us in the majority in the midterms.”
Massie, a conservative libertarian who has long been wary of foreign intervention by the U.S., has been one of the most vocal critics of the Trump administration’s recent operation.
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Rep. Thomas Massie said he is looking for ways to force a vote on his War Powers resolution. (Win McNamee/POOL/AFP via Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
U.S. stealth bombers struck three major nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran Saturday night.
Trump and other GOP leaders hailed the operation as a victory, while even pro-Israel Democrats also offered rare praise.
“Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump said Saturday night. “And Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not. future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.”
But progressives and the growing isolationist wing of the GOP blasted it as a needless escalation of tensions in the Middle East, at a time when Israel has been engaged in a weeklong conflict with Iran as well.
Top officials up to Trump himself have said the U.S. is not seeking war with Iran.
Vice President JD Vance told NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Sunday,” We’re not at war with Iran. We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.”
Massie told Fox News Digital those assurances were “ludicrous.”
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