Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha applauded late-night host Bill Maher’s “craptastically awesome” switch-up on Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the U.S. president’s involvement with foreign conflict.
Maher read Schiff a statement from “the administration” that said the president had “the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force” since he could determine if this was in “the national interest.” Maher asked Schiff, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, if this statement is “too vague,” to which the senator said it’s “totally vague.”
However, Maher revealed right after that this statement came from former President Barack Obama’s administration about airstrikes on Libya, not Trump on his Iran strikes. Concha said this “tactic” of simply using a statement and asking people about it is “perfectly fair.”
“‘Here’s a statement from the president, what do you think?’ I only wished that Maher let Schiff go on a little bit more, he says, ‘Far too vague,’ and really let him go for 60 seconds and go off on Trump when it was actually Obama and we’re talking about Libya, which that bombing went on for seven months, by the way, and no Democrats had any problem with no Congressional authority around that,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends Weekend, Sunday.
“Now they’re saying you absolutely need it here. It’s hypocrisy with a capital h, in italics, underscore,” Concha said.
Concha recalled that the late Tim Russert, the former host of NBC’s Meet the Press, would do this “all the time,” and ask people about their previous statements and how they’ve changed. Concha said it is “completely fair journalism,” but it isn’t used anymore since “no one wants to make any Democrats look bad now.”
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While several prominent Democrats have been critical of Trump’s involvement in Iran, there has also been some caution among Republicans about how it could affect the party’s affordability message in the 2026 elections.
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) told the Washington Examiner that there are “a lot of things that run the risk of undermining affordability,” with Iran being one of them.
The U.S. death toll in the Iran conflict stands at seven Americans, with the first six deaths happening in the conflict’s first days beginning on Feb. 28.
The previous six troops’ bodies were returned to U.S. soil during a dignified transfer Saturday.