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🇺🇸🇻🇪 THE PEACE PRESIDENT PARADOX: WHY VENEZUELA WOULD UNDO EVERYTHING TRUMP'S BUILT Trump spent his first year back claiming credit for ending wars he inherited, negotiating ceasefires he didn't broker, and positioning himself as the president who brings troops home instead of sending them out. That carefully cultivated image... show more
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![THOMAS MASSIE on Trump trying to whip his vote on the 2020 restatement that war powers resides with Congress "His argument... [was] that he could bluff Iran into doing what he wanted" "[But that would've] given [Trump] the power to declare war without Congress's involvement" "he didn't convince me. I did vote for the resolution that restated the Constitution... says you got to come to Congress if you want to have a war with Iran" "his first mistake may have been making Marco Rubio Secretary of State" "his second mistake would be letting Lindsey Graham on that airplane so many times, whispering in his ear" "finally, [maybe his] biggest mistake is letting Israel control too much of his policy. Perhaps it was taking $200 million from Miriam Adelson" This clip of Massie (Thomas Massie) is taken from an interview with James Patrick (James Patrick) posted to YouTube on May 21, 2026. ----------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "In January of 2020, I had a conversation with President Trump about war with Iran. Now, to put this in context, they killed Soleimani, not on Iranian soil, but in Iraq. And he was an Iranian general. And then, we had a drone flying over there, and they shot it down. "Now, whether it was over Iran or over the water, I don't know. Maybe we'll never know. But at that point, the president threatened to take action against Iran for that, and he was being encouraged to do so by members of his cabinet. "So we had a vote here in Congress in January of 2020, and the President heard that I was going to vote for no war. Basically, the vote was a restatement of the Constitution and that war powers resided in Congress. It was to say that President Trump cannot go to war with Iran without an act of Congress. "There were only three Republicans who voted for that. But the president heard that I was going to vote for it. So he called me up to whip me on this vote, and he said, I'm more, anti-war than you are. And I said, well, you— In fact, you are. You've not started a war. You're the first president that hasn't started a war. "Now, remember, this was his fourth year in office, 2020. You're the first president that hasn't started a war that I could vote for since I was 18. And he said, I guess you're right. Thank you for saying that. "His argument to me was that if we didn't constrict his ability to rattle the sabers and threaten war, that he could bluff Iran into doing what he wanted and therefore avoid war. And they said, well, that would work just fine unless they call your bluff. And then now we've given you the power to declare war without Congress's involvement, and you're obligated to war if your intention was to bluff. Now you're obligated to war. "And, that day, he didn't convince me. I did vote for the resolution that restated the Constitution that says you got to come to Congress if you want to have a war with Iran. Now, fortunately, that war did not happen. But here we are in his second term, and I think he's— "You know, his first mistake may have been making Marco Rubio Secretary of State. And then his second mistake would be letting Lindsey Graham on that airplane so many times, whispering in his ear. And then, you know, finally, it may be the biggest mistake is letting Israel control too much of his policy. Perhaps it was taking $200 million from Miriam Adelson. "That was a mistake that, I think, led largely to him being predisposed to listening to Israel's interests over America's interests with regard to war with Iran."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2059481569069592663/amplify_video_thumb/2059476651172610048/img/n83kIB0-ZYntNakD.jpg)
