Rogue Dem bucks party on Trump war powers, calls Iran ‘47-year-old war crime’
A Democratic rogue isn’t buying his party’s argument that President Donald Trump was on the cusp of committing war crimes in Iran and plans to again stop their attempts to...
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A Democratic rogue isn’t buying his party’s argument that President Donald Trump was on the cusp of committing war crimes in Iran and plans to again stop their attempts to handcuff his policing power in the region. "If you want to talk about a war crime, you know, Iran is a 47-year-old war crime," Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said on "Hannity" Wednesday night. Fetterman, a staunch backer of Israel, has time and again broken with his party on the war, joining Republicans to block several attempts by Senate Democrats to reassert Congress’ authority in the ongoing conflict. He is again fracturing from the party line, as several of his peers, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have declared that Trump's Iran mission, Operation Epic Fury, was a failure. SCHUMER BLASTS TRUMP’S IRAN WAR AS FAILURE, MOVES TO REIN IN HIS WAR POWERS AMID CEASEFIRE Congressional Democrats have demanded that Trump be removed from office for his posts on Easter Sunday and in recent days, in which he laid out an apocalyptic ultimatum for Iran to either reopen the Strait of Hormuz or see their "civilization die tonight." "If you target civilian infrastructure for the purposes the president was talking about — in other words, what he's saying is, if you don't open the Strait of Hormuz, I'm going to blow up civilian infrastructure — that's a war crime," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said ahead of the ceasefire deal struck Tuesday night. TOP GOP HAWK GRAHAM WARNS IRAN DEAL HAS ‘TROUBLING ASPECTS’ AS CEASEFIRE BEGINS Schumer, speaking at a press conference in New York City Wednesday, argued that Trump’s action in Iran was "one of the very worst military and foreign policy actions that the United States has ever taken." "This war has made us worse off today than before it started," Schumer said. Fetterman strayed from top Senate Democrats’ messaging against Trump’s campaign in the Middle East and countered that the president’s actions have been for the better, particularly as negot…