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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday said the Trump administration provided “no justification whatsoever” during an intelligence briefing on the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.
“I just came from the intelligence briefing that the administration came and brought to Congress. Really they provided vague comments, no justification whatsoever for this illegal and unconstitutional act of war that President Trump took,” Gabbard told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”
Gabbard’s remarks came on the heels of her comments on MSNBC Wednesday, in which the 2020 Presidential hopeful stated that the administration has NOT justified the killing of Qassem Soleimani, calling it an ‘assassination,’ but stopping short of saying Trump was guilty of committing a war crime.
WIBC host Tony Katz took Gabbard to task for her remarks in a commentary Friday morning:
“It was not an act of war and it was not an assassination. And if you want to argue an act of war, allow me to remind you that we are already at war; the only thing we haven’t done is declare it. We’ve been at war with Iran since 1978 or ’79. Just because they haven’t done it in a standard methodology or form doesn’t mean it’s not a war. They support terrorists – terrorists who claimed American lives. We are at war, and to call Soleimani’s death an assassination is wrong.”
Click below to hear Tony’s full commentary.
