Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Tehran)

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) got himself into a bit of trouble responding to a social media post that claimed “26 ships in Iran’s shadow fleet have made it past the US blockade in the Gulf of Oman” with a one-word response: “awesome.”

The senator now contends that his response was merely sarcasm and that “Trump’s bungled mismanagement of this war” isn’t “awesome.”

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