Donald Trump must have been sorely disappointed by Laura Ingraham’s obvious disapproval of the military strikes against Syria last night.
Ingraham, normally a Trump cheerleader (though she did object to the recently-signed spending bill) did not come right out and say she thought bombing Syria was a mistake, but she didn’t have to. And this was before we knew if the strikes had concluded.
INGRAHAM: South Sudan has had a four-year civil war that’s killed tens of thousands of people. Entire villages have been burned with flame throwers, boys and girls locked in straw huts, lit on fire. There are atrocities committed every day all over the world including in our strategic adversary, China.
And yet we go in again with a military strike a year after a previous military strike, and I guess, it feels good because there are horrible things happening there. But what do we really accomplish here tonight in Syria? This was not why Donald Trump got elected in my view.
Guest Sebastian Gorka, a fake terrorism expert who was fired by the FBI but a real fugitive linked to the Nazi Party, became unglued by the more blatant criticism of the strike by guest Douglas MacGragor, a retired colonel and military analyst. Gorka called MacGregor “obnoxiously obtuse” and started yelling at him for questioning Dear Leader. Fortunately, they were not all in the same studio or I would have worried that the thuggish Gorka might have gotten physical with MacGregor.
Gorka even got into it with Ingraham: She questioned why only Great Britain and France had joined in the U.S. strikes and not the “world community.”
GORKA: Just listen to what the president said. He said very clearly we are not there to do some kind of intervention like in the Gulf War back in 2003. We are there to make a stand against one of the most heinous forms of weapons known to man that are illegal.
And America, if we do nothing, then America, as a nation, starts to lose its meaning for what it represents. I know you believe in what that nation represents. You’re a believer. You believe in the eternal values that our founding fathers instilled in our founding documents. If those documents mean anything today, we take this action.
INGRAHAM: I think we could all pull out quotes from the framers about foreign entanglements.
GORKA: It’s not funny, Laura. It’s not funny.
INGRAHAM: It’s not funny but, Sebastian, don’t get on your moral high horse with me. Don’t play that game with me tonight.
GORKA: You’re making like a joke. It’s not a joke.
INGRAHAM: You’re raising the flag of the framers. I can quote an Alexander Hamilton and a George Washington to you tonight where they’re warning us about getting America entangled in foreign affairs over which we can have little effect. I’m not saying it’s applicable necessarily here. But the framers, I mean, it’s a complicated situation.
What bodes poorly for Trump is that other Trump stalwarts are also complaining.
Watch Ingraham break from Trump below, from the April 13, 2018 The Ingraham Angle.
(Transcript via FoxNews.com, with my copy edits)
sand and deal with it. Then Assad uses chemical weapons and Trump suddenly says it’s crossing the red line and hypocritically announces (after throwing fits in the past leaders who do this are “incompetent”) to all his intention to bomb Syria.
I saw Ingraham’s show that night. I’ll give her credit. She’s not being a reflexive Trump sycophant on Trump bombing Syria. Watching Gorka squirm because, as host, she had the power to tell him to shut up when his hate boiled over into a rage was enjpyable. And Laura is right to be skeptical because as we’re witnessing Trump’s Syria policy is inconsistent and incoherent. A case of wage the dog to divert attention from all of Trump’s scandals?
Well, if Drumpf was “sorely disappointed” by Laura “Heil Hitler” Ingraham’s disapproval, I can only imagine how he’ll feel after some comments by his other supporters:
Trump supporters rip decision to strike Syria By HENRY C. JACKSON
04/13/2018 11:43 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/trump-supporters-syria-strikes-523061
Some of President Donald Trump’s staunchest backers tore into his decision to attack Syria late Friday night, arguing it was unnecessary, reactionary and even Clinton-esque.
In tweet storms and video responses, they compared Trump’s decision to attack Syrian targets to actions taken by President George W. Bush or a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton.
“We lost. War machine bombs Syria. No evidence Assad did it. Sad warmongers hijacking our nation,” tweeted conservative author and radio host Michael Savage.
“Donald Bush,” tweeted Mike Cernovich, a conservative author and once a staunch supporter of Trump.
“Congratulations to the Trump administration for adopting the same failed foreign policy and ignoring of the constitution as the last two administrations,” tweeted Doug Stafford, a strategist for Sen. Rand Paul’s RANDPAC.
Conservative author Ann Coulter retweeted a series of people questioning military action in Syria — as well as past tweets from Trump himself.
“After Trump’s first year we have: 1.3 trillion omnibus, no wall, war in Syria. Is Clinton secretly President?” wrote Lucian B. Wintrich, the D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for Gateway Pundit.
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Man — in between his lawyer/consigliere Mike Cohen getting raided on Monday, and getting raked over the coals by his own sycophants on Friday, it just hasn’t been Donnie Drumpf’s week.
And its only going to get worse . . .
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This is one of the very few things Trump did that I agree with… Even this dope, Trump, knows you can’t set back while a country uses illegal chemical weapons against its own people.
What all the Fox News hosts are enjoying, regardless of whether they support the actual bombing, is that they can pretend to be covering “real news” as an alternative to the scandalous material that keeps popping from the behavior of the Pence White House and its supporters. Fox News spent this week trying to ignore the ramifications of Trump’s attorney’s files being confiscated, at least when they weren’t openly screaming for Mueller, Rosenstein and everyone else they dislike to be fired. Fox News spent the rest of the week frantically trying to pre-attack James Comey’s book, including some desperate swipes by Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld where they tried to call Comey a “little girl”. Now they can pretend to be more concerned about “serious issues” as the Pence White House launches another pointless bombing mission at the Syrians (and potentially starts a major confrontation with Russia at the same time).
