Senator accuses Trump of 'raising middle finger at Congress' over threat of 'disproportionate' response if Iran strikes U.S.

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'The president's impetuous, uninformed, weak conditions creates a lot of peril,' Democratic Senator Michael Bennet said.

on CNN Sunday and declared that Trump's tweet was like"raising a middle finger" to Congress.

"You know, I hate to say this, but I think it's President Trump raising his middle finger at the Congress," Bennet said."You think about the context in which all of this is happening. 20 years of war in Afghanistan where we now know from reporters of thethat after the first six months, we basically accomplished nothing that we were set out to try to accomplish."

"When the War College writes a report of the Iraq war and says, Iran was the winner of the Iraq war," he continued."For us now to be sending 3,500 troops to the Middle East without taking account of what we've been doing the last 20 years on the basis of the president's impetuous, uninformed, weak conditions creates a lot of peril."

Although Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has attempted to defend Trump's actions in-relation to Iran by claiming that they have made Americans safer, Bennet challenged the assertion."It's hard to see how we've been made more safe by the decisions this president has made," he said.reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

Trump's tweet on Sunday came after he shared another one earlier that morning warning Iran that the U.S. military will deploy"brand new beautiful equipment" to the country"without hesitation" if they chose to retaliate. On Saturday, the president also2020 US Democratic Presidential hopeful US Senator for Colorado Michael Bennet speaks on-stage during the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in San Francisco, California on August 23, 2019.

 

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