‘Is Netanyahu Dead?’ Senate Intel Committee Member Chris Van Hollen Responds

The Trump administration has lied to the American people yet again.

Since striking Iran in late February, Donald Trump and top administration officials haven’t been able to get their stories straight about their rationale for war.

“They’ve had these constantly shifting rationales,” says Senator Chris Van Hollen, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. “And the reason they have to keep shifting them is because when they say that one thing was their goal – like getting rid of Iran’s nuclear capacity, they claimed – that turns out to be just not true.”

What is true, though, is that Trump played right into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hands when he decided to strike Iran. “Netanyahu just a few weeks ago said he’d been waiting 40 years for an American president to join him in attacking Iran. And in Donald Trump, he finally found somebody stupid enough and reckless enough to actually do it,” Van Hollen explains.

While Van Hollen, who is widely considered a possible 2028 presidential candidate, slams Trump for acquiescing to Netanyahu and Israel, he doesn’t spare Joe Biden either:

“The Biden administration did nothing to hold the Netanyahu government to account, and now the Trump administration is not only doing nothing to hold them to account, but essentially just giving them a blank check to do whatever they want in Lebanon or in Iran.”

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