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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt spared neither Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., nor CNN connected Monday for claiming that the Trump medication failed to adequately little lawmakers anterior to launching "Operation Midnight Hammer" against cardinal Iranian atomic sites implicit the weekend.
"We did marque bipartisan calls," Leavitt insisted during an quality connected "Fox & Friends."
"Thomas Massie… helium should beryllium a Democrat due to the fact that he's much aligned with them than with the Republican Party. [Both] were fixed notice," she added.
Leavitt's remarks came aft the Kentucky lawmaker told CBS News connected Sunday that the Trump medication failed to little members of Congress anterior to striking Iran connected Saturday and argued that Congress should person spent clip debating the War Powers Resolution brought distant by himself and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.
SCHIFF CONDEMNS TRUMP'S IRAN STRIKES, SUGGESTS ONLY POSITIVE IS SETBACK OF NUCLEAR PROGRAM
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt criticized some Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and CNN connected Monday. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
After the strikes, Massie besides took to X to respond to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who insisted the president "made the close call" successful airy of the "imminent danger" America faced.
"Why didn’t you telephone america backmost from abrogation to ballot connected subject enactment if determination was a superior menace to our country?" Massie fired back, drafting ire from Trump.
Massie's office, erstwhile reached for remark connected Trump's recent criticism of his allegedly anti-MAGA stance, directed Fox News Digital to a caller X station which read, "[Donald Trump] declared truthful overmuch War connected maine contiguous it should necessitate an Act of Congress. #sassywithmassie."
Leavitt besides homed successful connected a CNN communicative that claimed Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, were not briefed connected Trump’s Iran strikes, portion galore apical Republican lawmakers were.
The communicative antecedently caught her attention, starring her to request that the outlet marque a retraction.
TOP DEMOCRATS, MEDIA DECLARE US AT WAR AFTER IRAN STRIKES AS WHITE HOUSE PUSHES BACK ON NARRATIVE
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is seen extracurricular the U.S. Capitol connected Wednesday, December 18, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"The White House made calls to legislature leadership. They were bipartisan calls. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries couldn't beryllium reached. We tried him earlier the strike, and helium didn't prime up the phone, but helium was briefed after, arsenic good arsenic Chuck Schumer was briefed anterior to the strike. So this conception that CNN ran with astatine the White House did not springiness a heads up to Democrats is conscionable wholly false."
CNN did not respond to Fox News Digital's erstwhile petition for remark connected the matter. The outlet added a correction to the communicative to see close timing.
Fox News Digital antecedently contacted Schumer and Jeffries’ offices for comment.
Both lawmakers released statements implicit the play condemning Trump for the onslaught and for not seeking legislature support anterior to acting, but some fell abbreviated of claiming they were not briefed oregon notified earlier the existent strike.
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In his statement, Schumer said, "No president should beryllium allowed to unilaterally march this federation into thing arsenic consequential arsenic warfare with erratic threats and nary strategy."
Jeffries, meanwhile, wrote successful part, "Donald Trump promised to bring bid to the Middle East. He has failed to present connected that promise. The hazard of warfare has present dramatically increased, and I commune for the information of our troops successful the portion who person been enactment successful harm’s way.
"President Trump misled the state astir his intentions, failed to question legislature authorization for the usage of subject unit and risks American entanglement successful a perchance disastrous warfare successful the Middle East."
He finished by saying Trump has the "heavy burden" of explaining to the American radical wherefore the unilateral enactment was undertaken.
Fox News' Lindsay Kornick and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
Taylor Penley is an subordinate exertion with Fox News.
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