Senator John Fetterman has enraged his fellow Democrats after defending President Trump’s comments, which he argues were taken out of context.
Democrats and their media minions jumped on Trump’s somewhat clumsy response on Tuesday when he was asked if Americans’ “financial situations” were inspiring him to reach a deal with Iran.
“Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran, they can’t have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all. That’s the only thing that motivates me.”
Of course, Trump was arguing that, when compared to potential obliteration from a nuclear Iran, the current “financial situation” of America is not a motivating factor in reaching a deal.
But that’s not how most of the media framed it, and when Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked Fetterman why he was the lone Dem to support Trump in his stance on Iran, the Pennsylvania Dem defended the president’s statement.
Senator Fetterman defends President Trump’s statement about not thinking about the financial condition of the American people:
What he really was say—he did say is like, you know, I’m really thinking that we can’t ever let Iran building a building a bomb. That’s the essence of… pic.twitter.com/8td4dwZpFd
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“I’m always going to stand with Israel and the Jewish community. And I would like to remind everybody that Israel is our special ally, and America is always the force of good in that region, but also in the world now, too. And now, why I’m the only Democrat that voted for that, because all the other Democrats, we’ve all said in the past, we can’t let Iran build the nuclear bomb. And now, when someone did something about that to really prevent that, you know, why wouldn’t I support that? So I’m proud to have that vote,” Fetterman began.
“And also something that the president said before he left for China. I mean, he said something that got clipped, saying, I’m not thinking about the American people financially. But what he really was saying, what he did say, is like, ‘I am really thinking that we can’t ever let Iran build a bomb.’ And I mean that’s exactly, that’s the essence of what that is, and to hold that line,” he continued.
“I mean, how could we just walk away and not let that-, you know, let that happen. And now the whole world should join us, stand with us. China, Europe, all these other countries should say we should demand Iran end their nuclear ambitions. And now we can all get back to building up all of our nation and parts of the world. So that’s where we are. People, you know, people in my party have forgotten that the Iranians are actually the really bad guy. Why are they involved? Because what Iran has been doing for almost five decades. You know, they’re the ones that organized 10/7. They’re the one that created Hezbollah, Hamas, and Houthis now. So that’s why I’m proud to stand, you know, through this entire thing.”
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