Watch Kennedy’s comments here.
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) argued that President Trump’s decision to go into Iran will make the world a safer place in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor.
Key excerpts of the speech are below.
“We’re going to look back five years from now and realize that what President Trump has done in Iran and what Israel has done in Iran has made the world immeasurably safer. And I know all about it, that it’s caused gas prices to go up. I get it, and I’m not happy about any of that. But what the president has done, and Israel has done—and they had the courage to do it—has made the world safer. Not just the Middle East; the entire world.”
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“Now, I know the price of gas. I get it; it’s painful as hell. And I know it’s increased inflation, and we’re working to get it down. And I know a lot of my colleagues—they have the right to their opinion—they’ve accused the president of everything except abandoning his children to wolves in terms of Iran.
“President Trump has made the world immeasurably safer—not just the Middle East—immeasurably safer, because he’s the first president in our lifetime, along with Israel, to say, ‘Iran, we have had enough of your b.s.’ And we have gutted them like a fish, and I’m proud of what America did.”
Watch Kennedy’s speech here.
