Joe Biden’s hypocritical debate attack on Trump’s Iran strike

Published January 15, 2020 5:10pm ET



During Tuesday night’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2020 candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden bashed President Trump for recently ordering a strike that took out top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Biden insisted the president must first go to Congress before taking this kind of military action.

CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer then noted, “Mr. Vice President, just to be clear, the Obama-Biden administration did not ask Congress for permission multiple times when it took military action.”

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