The former Assistant of Clinton praises Trump on Iran, doubts that Kamala Harris “ courage ”
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A former staff member of the National National Security Council of Clinton broke with his party and praised President Donald Trump’s successful strikes on Iran during the weekend, while pointing out that the former vice-president Kamala Harris would probably have missed the “courage” to execute such a mission if she was commander-in-chief.
“I am not a fan of many actions by Donald Trump, but I will speak openly and honestly when he will take daring steps by defending the interests of America, as he did this evening,” said Jamie Metzl, founder of the international social group, shared World, Posted on X Saturday evening.
Metzl sat in the country of national security of former president Bill Clinton and was the deputy director of the president of the president Joe Biden of the senatorial committee of foreign relations, and he praised Trump several times on X this weekend, while taking a blow to the lack of “courage and courage” of Harris.
“But I am not a blind tribalist and I am perfectly at ease to praise President Trump for bold and courageous actions in support of the national interests of America, as he took last night,” Metzl told X Sunday morning.
“Although I believe that the election of Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy, our society and our economy, as well as to help the most vulnerable people in the United States and in the world, I also believe that the Harris VP would not have had the courage or the courage to take a stage as essential as the president took it last night,” he added.
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Former presidents Bill Clinton and Joe Biden at an event marking the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Metzl continued in its X messages that “Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years” and aimed to build a nuclear weapon with the intention of manipulating it on the United States and its allies.
“Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years. His regime has murdered thousands of American citizens. His” death of death in America “was not a diet but a central ideology. He wrote.
Fox News Digital contacted the Harris office concerning the Metzl post, but did not immediately receive an answer.
D vance, from left to right, President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, and Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, during a speech to the nation in the eastern house in the White House in Washington, DC, United States, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Metzl’s comments are part of a cacophony of traditional democrats and anti-maga voice that has come out to rent Trump since the successful attack on Iran, nicknamed “Operation Midnight Hammer”.
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“The destruction of the Iranian nuclear program is essential to ultimate peace in the Middle East. It is not a democratic or republican question – dealing with the Iranian threat is at the heart of the national security of America. The world is safer because of the actions of our courageous soldiers. I pray for the security of our members of the service in the region”, for the New Jersey Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer said in a statement during the weekend.
Former vice-president Kamala Harris, President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. (Getty Images)
“As I had kept it for a long time, it was the right decision of @potus,” the Democratic Senator of Pennsylvania John Fetterman wrote on Saturday. “Iran is the main sponsor of terrorism in the world and cannot have nuclear capacities. I am grateful and praised the best soldiers in the world.”
While the New York Times Bret columnist StephensA frequent Trump critic, wrote in an opinion article that Trump made a “courageous and correct decision that deserves respect, no matter what we think of this president”, while the columnist of Fellom Times David French also said that it was the “good decision” on social networks.
Other Democrats and frequent Trump criticisms, such as New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Republican representative of Kentucky Thomas Massie, criticized Trump over the strikes, arguing that they have bypassed the congress.
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Trump announced the Saturday evening strikes on Iran in a social post of truth which was not preceded by media leaks or speculation that the strikes were imminent. The unexpected social media post was followed a few hours later by a brief Trump address to the Nation when he was flanked by the Secretary of Defense Pete HegsethSecretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice-President JD Vance.
The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth (L), accompanied by the president of the heads of joint staff, General Dan Caine (R) of the Chiefs of Staff, responds to a journalist at a press conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. WE (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
“Not time ago, the American army made massive precision strikes on the three main nuclear installations of the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan,” Trump said from the white house late Saturday in an address to the nation concerning the strikes. “Everyone has heard these names for years when they built this horribly destructive business. Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity, and a nuclear threat stopped by the world sponsor in the world. Tonight, I can point out to the world that strikes were a spectacular military success.”
The “erased” strikes from Iranian nuclear installations and supported the nation in a corner to conclude a peace agreement, said Trump. This mission was also celebrated by Hegseth and president of the chiefs of joint staff, General Dan Caine as a general of secrecy and intentionally misleading to confuse the enemy.
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US air strikes have struck many facilities in Iran. (Fox News)
“This involved poor orientation and the highest operational security. Our B-2 has entered and out of these nuclear sites, in and outward and back, without the world knowing it at all,” said Hegseth. “In this way, it was historic.”
The operation included the longest mission B-2 Spirit Bomber since 2001, the The second longest B-2 mission never controlled and the largest B-2 operational strike in the history of the United States, said Hegseth and Caine at the Sunday press conference.
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Operation Midnight Hammer followed Israel launching preventive strikes on Iran on June 12 after months of attempting nuclear negotiations and stopped nuclear negotiations and a subsequent concern that Iran has advanced its nuclear program. Netanyahu said shortly after strikes were needed to “retreat the Iranian threat to the very survival of Israel”.
Hannah Panreck of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
