Lawrence O'Donnell Torches Tulsi Gabbard Over 1 Iran War Claim: 'That Is Simply Perjury'
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The "Last Word" host praised the director of national intelligence for "defying" President Donald Trump during her testimony before unleashing on her.
MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday praised one senior MAGA official for “defying” President Donald Trump and his purported rationale for the Iran war — before skewering her over one egregious claim that O’Donnell condemned as “perjury.”
“There was obviously no imminent threat to the United States coming from Iran that justified Donald Trump starting a war,” said O’Donnell, citing Tuesday’s resignation letter from Joe Kent, the now-former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
O’Donnell dedicated the rest of his “Last Word” monologue to Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who testified Wednesday in prepared remarks for the Senate Intelligence Committee that U.S. strikes in June had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Gabbard was merely echoing Trump’s own claims about the “Operation Midnight Hammer” strikes last year, which appeared to end hostilities before he accused Iran of rebuilding their facilities and took America to war in February over these “imminent threats.”
“It would have been so easy for Tulsi Gabbard to say, ‘I agree with the president’s judgment that there was an imminent threat,’” O’Donnell noted Wednesday. “She refused to do that, refused to tell that lie for Donald Trump.”
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