Fox News anchor Bret Baier marveled at the responses from critics of President Trump who are hesitant to approve of his strategy on Iran.
“You wonder whether Trump Derangement Syndrome factors in to some of the responses you hear publicly in Washington,” Baier said Wednesday.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is a label defenders of the president use as a pejorative to describe liberals or others who oppose Trump in anything he does or says.
Baier, regarded nationally as one of Fox News’s fairest journalists on staff, praised Trump for not attacking Iran after the country launched missile strikes on a series of U.S. air bases in Iraq on Tuesday.
Iran “appears to be standing down,” Trump said Wednesday during a speech at the White House. “The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it.”
It was a major shift in rhetoric from Trump, who last week threatened to bomb Iranian cultural sites if the country targeted Americans.
….targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020
“He did draw that red line,” Baier said during his analysis. “There is this sense that this president, perhaps, does not get credit when things go right.”
The strikes in Iraq were in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani. Trump said Soleimani was killed because of an “imminent threat” he posed to American lives in the region.
Some Democrats have criticized the move and said Trump was needlessly bringing America to the brink of another war in the Middle East. Some even suggested he killed Soleimani to distract from his impeachment by the U.S. House.
This makes no sense. Sanctions are economic warfare.
They have already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran.
You cannot claim to want deescalation and then announce new sanctions with no clear goal. This is not a measured response! https://t.co/sGWtwXuNDT
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 8, 2020
“Originally, as this all was happening, it was going to be World War III, he started World War III, and there’s no strategy here,” Baier said. “Now we saw what Iran did in response. We see what the U.S. is saying in response to that.”
