Rep. Doug Collins alleged that members of the Democratic Party are “in love with terrorists” and claimed they are mourning the death of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Collins, a vocal supporter of President Trump in the House of Representatives, rebuked Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who are seeking to pass a war powers resolution, which would limit Trump’s military options should he choose to strike back at Iran, during an interview with Fox Business’s Lou Dobbs on Wednesday night.
“I didn’t think she could become more hypocritical than she was during impeachment, but guess what, surprise surprise, Nancy Pelosi does it again, and her Democrats fall right in line,” the Georgia Republican said. “One, they’re in love with terrorists, we see that, they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who are the ones who suffered under Soleimani. That’s a problem.”
Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated and deescalated over the last week or so. Trump’s order to kill Soleimani last Thursday was in response to the death of an American contractor and the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad last month. Iran retaliated by attacking two U.S.-Iraqi air bases with more than a dozen ballistic missiles but caused no casualties.
Trump announced that the U.S. would not be militarily responding to Iran’s missile fire. Instead, during the president’s Wednesday morning address, he lobbied for the U.S. to make “a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place.”
Collins’s comments echo those of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who recently claimed Democrats are the “only” people in the world “mourning” the loss of Soleimani. She later stood by the remark in the face of backlash.
