Radio host Charlamagne tha God dismissed criticisms about President Donald Trump‘s strikes against Iran over the weekend, citing all the military action past presidents took without congressional approval.
Trump ordered three of Iran’s nuclear sites destroyed by six 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs and 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Saturday. Charlamagne scoffed at the idea of impeaching Trump over actions that his predecessors have also committed.
“This is one of those times that politicians sound like hypocrites,” Charlamagne said on The Breakfast Club Monday. “There have been a bunch of presidents who have ordered strikes without congressional approval. Barack Obama did it against Libya. Joe Biden ordered strikes in Iraq and Syria without congressional approval. Bill Clinton did it to Kosovo.”
Charlamagne mentioned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) statement that the decision to strike without congressional authorization was “a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.”
“He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X.
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Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) has joined the chorus calling for impeachment. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has steered clear from such language, but demanded a classified briefing from the president “immediately.”
Meanwhile, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) expressed support for the “entirely appropriate” series of strikes against Iran. Fetterman also implied, while on Fox News’s Fox and Friends Monday, that he’d be against any effort to impeach Trump because “if you throw that term around, that actually diminishes the severity of what impeachment is reserved for.”