Marsha Blackburn blasts Trump critics who ‘went along’ with past strikes

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) mocked her Democratic counterparts for condemning President Donald Trump for ordering a strike similar to that of his left-wing predecessors.

Trump ordered three of Iran’s nuclear sites destroyed by six 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs and 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles over the weekend. Blackburn compared it to military action past presidents took without congressional approval, while on Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus on Tuesday.

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