Fetterman breaks ranks, praises Trump's Middle East policies: 'Did the right thing'

Sen. John Fetterman, the battleground authorities Democrat known for bucking his party, praised President Donald Trump's policies successful the Middle East connected Monday. 

During The Senate Project bid discussion, organized by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate and the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and co-hosted by FOX Nation, Fetterman and his chap Pennsylvanian Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican, discussed cardinal issues impacting Americans. 

Conflict successful the Middle East was main among those topics, arsenic the bipartisan senators person recovered improbable communal crushed successful their enactment for Israel. Fetterman admitted helium is the sole Democrat consenting to admit Trump's occurrence successful the Middle East. 

"I wasn't truly allowed to disagree, politically, with the archetypal statement connected Iran," Fetterman said.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., praised President Donald Trump for his Middle East policies.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump ended U.S. participation successful the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and re-imposed sanctions against them successful 2018. As a Democrat, Fetterman said it was politically unpopular to enactment Trump backing retired of the Iran deal. 

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Fetterman, present abandoning the Democratic playbook, admitted connected Monday, "I truly bash think, now, Trump did the close happening to interruption that agreement."

Fetterman told The Washington Free Beacon successful April that the Trump medication should destruct Iran's atomic capabilities with a subject strike. The event's moderator, Fox News' Shannon Bream, anchor of "Fox News Sunday," asked Fetterman astir his comments during the Boston, Massachusetts, lawsuit connected Monday. 

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., talks with West Point cadets successful the Senate subway connected Nov. 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Iran attacked Israel, and it's precise wide they deficiency the capabilities to truly task that benignant of––and past Israel struck backmost and destroyed the batteries that support their atomic facilities, and they besides deed the atomic laboratory arsenic well, too. So now, Israel understands that we person a model present to onslaught that."

The Pennsylvania Democrat said his enactment isn't consenting to prosecute successful these nuanced conversations astir the United States' attack to struggle successful the Middle East. 

"I deliberation it's erstwhile successful a procreation to destruct that facility," Fetterman said, doubling down connected his comments. 

Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick and John Fetterman person recovered communal crushed successful their enactment for Israel.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Fetterman besides praised Trump for moving the U.S. embassy successful Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem during his archetypal administration. 

"That's perfectly enactment maine truly the lone 1 near successful the Democratic caucus talking connected these kinds of things," Fetterman said, referring to his enactment for moving the embassy. 

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"When Trump changed the embassy to Jerusalem, radical thought… the portion was going to burn. I mean, nary of that happened… Some bully things person happened there," Fetterman said.

Fetterman was the lone Democratic legislator consenting to conscionable with Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago up of his inauguration and has been steadfast successful his enactment for Israel, 1 of respective instances of Fetterman bucking his ain party.