Fox Business host Lou Dobbs asserted that President Trump would have been wrong to brief Congress before ordering a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general.
Dobbs interviewed White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Friday after Trump ordered the strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani at an airport in Iraq.
Democratic lawmakers slammed Trump following the attack for not notifying Congress before the attack was carried out. Dobbs hit back, calling the Democrats’ complaint “utterly irrational.”
“I think a good case could be built it would be utterly irrational of the Trump administration to brief the very people who are trying to unseat him, remove him from power, to overthrow his presidency, and who have done everything in their power to do so,” Dobbs said. “I just can’t understand why a neutral voice in this, say in the national media, isn’t saying, ‘What are the Democrats talking about, and why would they expect anything other than to be found untrustworthy by the president of the United States?'”
Grisham responded by hitting the media, saying the press is not a “neutral voice.” She hit the Washington Post specifically for referring to Soleimani as “Iran’s most revered military leader.”
Trump also withheld knowledge of a planned attack from Congress when he approved the strike to kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. The father of Kayla Mueller, an American woman captured and tortured by Islamic State terrorists before reportedly dying in a coalition airstrike, backed Trump’s decision at the time.
Carl Mueller said that Trump’s decision to stay silent until the raid took place may have saved American lives by preventing news of the raid from leaking.
