Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took a swipte at President Trump’s national security team in a rare interview as part of a recent pattern of public comments urging the president to consider military intervention in Iran and elsewhere more favorably.
“He’s got some pretty rabid isolationists over at [the Department of Defense] — you could argue the vice president is in that group,” the former Senate majority leader told Politico. “None of those people who’ve read history.”
In a 40-minute conversation with Politico’s Jonathan Martin, McConnell praised Trump while urging him to adopt deterrence — peace through strength, Martin wrote — in American foreign policy.
“Most of [Trump’s] advisers don’t agree with what I’m saying,” McConnell said, acknowledging that his platform has diminished since he left the majority leader position. He noted, for instance, that he had had little contact with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his former Senate colleague.
But now, he told Martin, he has “the freedom to do it that I would not have had if I had still been leader.”
McConnell’s remarks, published Friday, follow a floor speech this week where he urged the U.S. to support Israel and Ukraine and criticized isolationists close to Trump. He in particular took aim at Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for a video where she warned of “warmongers” fomenting tensions between nuclear powers.
“The president’s own, his own, Director of National Intelligence traveled to Hiroshima to record a bizarre video, not as a warning against Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, but presumably against American or Israeli operations to blunt them,” McConnell said on the floor.
McConnell previously praised Trump’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities as deterring Tehran from further nuclear advancement.
“Seizing this opportunity is not an escalation toward war — it is a prudent response to the warmongers in Tehran. Iran would be foolish to misunderstand American resolve,” he said in a statement at the time.
“I commend the President for authorizing decisive action and all U.S. servicemembers responsible for carrying it out," he added.
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