In yet another round of President Donald Trump showing that he knows better than anyone else how to send members of the political left into a total crashout, “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg, formerly the much-discredited Secretary of the Department of Transportation for Biden, totally lost it in a pearl-clutching interview about the Operation Epic Fury strikes on Iran.
Such came when Buttigieg appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday, March 15. During that appearance, during which he spoke with CNN personality and show host Jake Tapper, Buttigieg angrily and absurdly declared that President Donald Trump is no longer fit for office because of the strikes.
Beginning, Buttigieg bizarrely said that he is not worried about the soldiers who are serving and at risk in the conflict, saying, “What I’m worried about is not the soldiers and the people who are serving. What I’m worried about is their political leadership, like Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. You know, we lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger.”
Continuing, he argued that Trump is at fault for not “selling” the conflict, bizarrely insisting that lies to sell it, as were done before the Iraq War of 2003, would have been better. He said, “This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it. Here’s the biggest thing that has not changed since the war in Afghanistan or the war in Iraq.”
Then, almost immediately after saying he’s not worried about the soldiers whose lives are on the line, Buttigieg tried ot use the deaths of servicemen and women as a bludgeon against the president. He said, obscenely, “The biggest thing that is not changed is who pays the price. We have now seen 13 American servicemen killed. And when you prepare to go to war, the thing you think about, the thing you most dread, is your family being the ones to get that knock on the door. More than a dozen American families have now gotten that knock on the door, and the president has basically assured us that there will be more where that came from.”
Still not done with his obscene attempt to use the deaths of soldiers as a political tool, Buttigieg insisted that mortgage rates have gone up because of the war and that is comparable to the deaths of soldiers, saying, “And while they’re paying the ultimate price, every American is paying some price right now. Mortgage rates are up because of this war. Food is going to be more expensive because of this war. And of course, the price of gas that we’re paying at the pump is more expensive because of this war.”
Adding to that, Buttigieg said, “Just this week, we saw campaign fundraising materials being put out, emails where the president’s committee, the president’s political operation, was raising money off of images of him at a dignified transfer.”
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Concluding, Buttigieg insisted that Trump is unfit to be the president, saying, “Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America’s war dead, he is unfit to be the commander-in-chief.”
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