A former aide for Presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton has acknowledged that Former Vice President Kamala Harris likely wouldn’t have shown the same “courage or fortitude” as President Donald Trump when it came to addressing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
“I served on the National Security Council under President Clinton. I was Joe Biden’s Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I voted for Kamala Harris and have been a vocal critic of many dangerous and undemocratic actions taken by President Trump. But…” Jamie Metzl said on Twitter.
Metzl expressed, “I voted for Kamala Harris and have been a vocal critic of many dangerous and undemocratic actions taken by President [Donald] Trump. I’m not a blind tribalist and am perfectly comfortable praising President Trump for bold and courageous actions in support of America’s core national interests, as he took last night.”
He added, “Although I believe electing Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy [and] society, I also believe VP Harris would not have had the courage or fortitude to take such an essential step as the president took last night.”
Metzl emphasized, “Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years. Its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens. Its slogan ‘death to America’ was not window dressing but core ideology. It was racing toward a nuclear weapon with every intention of using it to threaten America, our allies, and the Middle East region as a whole.”
His remarks followed a U.S. military strike targeting Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan using B-2 stealth bombers and Navy Tomahawk missiles.
Since his initial campaign in 2016, President Trump has maintained that the U.S. should prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
