Fox’s Trey Gowdy Hammers Tucker and Steve Bannon On Iran Policy: ‘The Pro-Putin Wing’ of the GOP
Fox News host Trey Gowdy hammered Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon during an interview with Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites in Iran. Gowdy did not mention the pair of MAGA influencers by name, but made clear who he meant and called them part of the “pro-Putin wing” of the GOP.
“Congressman, there are a few people I know that know the cost of war better than you do. So you mentioned Ukraine. There is a pro-Putin wing within the party. There were two notable people, one a podcaster, one a former television show host, who literally were begging President Trump to let Israel go it alone,” Gowdy said, referring to Bannon and Tucker, respectively, adding:
You made the military argument for why Israel needed our help, but is there not also a moral argument that strong nations should help those that are under attack?
“There’s certainly always a moral argument, but those kind of people don’t care about moral arguments. Trey, so the argument you could make to them, which I think is valid is a self-defense one. You have to remind everyone, Israel is not the Great Satan. The Great Satan is the United States. The United States has always been the true target of Iran,” Crenshaw replied, adding:
Their ballistic missile program has always had the intent of growing so that it can eventually reach the United States. They’re enriching their uranium to weapons grade levels for a good reason: To beat the Great Satan. Israel is the thing in the way.
What those people get wrong and Tucker, like you mentioned, what — and I questioned his motives also in what is causing these very strange opinions to be had, put that aside for a second. They don’t truly understand, they think we’re the ones in front of Israel, right? They think we’re the ones stopping Iran from destroying Israel. It’s the other way around. Israel is the first speed bump between the U.S. and Iran. That’s always been the case.
And so that’s why it’s always been in our mutual interest to support Israel. Let them take this on the way they are and move in like President Trump did very boldly, by the way, I just have to say, what a difficult decision, more difficult than most presidents in our lifetime, in our century, that he had to make. It was a tough call and a bold one.
But the reasoning is far closer to self-defense and pure self-interest than it is to just taking the moral high ground. And by the way, President Trump does have the moral high ground because he gave Iran 60 days to come — to get out of it. I mean, he went back. He begged for negotiation. The Israelis said hold off. Let us try to talk to these people. And they didn’t want to do it. And so now they have the consequences they have.
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