{"id":2450525,"date":"2025-06-22T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawler-rebukes-hypocrisy-of-democrats-ripping-trumps-strikes-against-iran-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:16:58","slug":"lawler-rebukes-hypocrisy-of-democrats-ripping-trumps-strikes-against-iran-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawler-rebukes-hypocrisy-of-democrats-ripping-trumps-strikes-against-iran-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawler rebukes \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 of Democrats ripping Trump\u2019s strikes against Iran &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawler-rebukes-hypocrisy-of-democrats-ripping-trumps-strikes-against-iran-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2450525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) defended President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-military-targets-two-syrian-based-facilities-used-by-iran-in-response-to-attacks-on-american-troops\/\" title=\"US military ... ...n sites used by ... after attacks on US troops.\">recent military strikes<\/a> against Iran, which targeted three nuclear sites, countering criticisms from Democratic lawmakers who previously condemned similar actions by former president Barack Obama. lawler accused Democrats of hypocrisy, pointing out their silence during previous conflicts initiated by Obama in Libya and Syria.He emphasized that safeguarding against Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is a bipartisan concern, and he fully supported Trump&#8217;s decision, citing the president&#8217;s authority under Article 2 of the Constitution and prior authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs). Lawler highlighted the threat posed by Iran too U.S. citizens, notably those in Israel, and dismissed claims that the strikes were unconstitutional. However, he faced opposition from some Republicans, including Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who argued that there was no <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >imminent threat justifying<\/a> the strikes. After the attacks, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran against closing the Strait of Hormuz, which is vital for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-stonewalling-gop-asking-about-iran-sanctions-report\/\" title=\"Biden Stonewalling GOP Asking About ... Sanctions: ...ort\">global oil trade<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Lawler rebukes &lsquo;hypocrisy&rsquo; of Democrats ripping Trump&rsquo;s strikes against Iran<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2154736\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) pushed back against Democratic lawmakers slamming President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> strikes against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Iran<\/a>, suggesting these criticisms were &ldquo;nowhere&rdquo; when former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Barack Obama<\/a> took similar actions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and the United States carried out strikes against three nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend, prompting an outcry from lawmakers like Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3450284\/adam-schiff-trump-partisan-exercise-not-informing-democrats-iran-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Adam Schiff<\/a> (D-CA) and Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450068\/aoc-other-democrats-float-impeachment-after-trump-strikes-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) to criticize both the bombing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3450100\/democrats-intelligence-committees-not-briefed-us-bombs-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the lack of briefing they received on it<\/a>. On the matter of the strikes, Lawler &ldquo;fully&rdquo; backed Trump&rsquo;s decision, citing how the need for Iran not to have a nuclear weapon is a bipartisan policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450290\/thomas-massie-no-imminent-threat-iran-attack-trump-congress\/\">Massie says &#8216;no imminent threat&#8217; from Iran authorized Trump to bypass Congress for strikes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450232\/wesley-hunt-warns-us-doomed-repeat-history-statues-removed\/\">Wesley Hunt warns US is &#8216;doomed to repeat&#8217; history if statues are removed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3450100\/democrats-intelligence-committees-not-briefed-us-bombs-iran\/\">Democrats on intelligence committees not briefed before Trump ordered Iran strikes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;To my colleagues who were saying it is unconstitutional, where were they when Barack Obama struck Libya?&rdquo; Lawler asked on a special Sunday edition of Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Faulkner Focus<\/em>. &ldquo;Where were they when he struck Syria, or Pakistan, or Yemen? They were nowhere because the hypocrisy of this is just glaring. The fact is the president, through Article 2, as well as through multiple AUMFs, has the authority to make this type of limited strike. If we are to go to war, yes, of course, Congress would have to be involved. But it has been cleared through prior administrations, Republican and Democrat, that the president has the authority to take this action.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2995236&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=47662c399575876e95bfefe0b0cd4d98\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lawler continued that Iran is willing to &ldquo;strike indiscriminately&rdquo; civilian populations for over a year. He also spotlighted how up to 700,000 U.S. citizens can be living in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Israel<\/a>, which is in proximity to Iran, &ldquo;at a given time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3450319\/pope-leo-war-does-not-solve-problems-us-strikes-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">POPE LEO SAYS &lsquo;WAR DOES NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS&rsquo; FOLLOWING US STRIKES ON IRAN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats are not the only ones critical of Trump&rsquo;s decision, however, as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has deemed Trump&rsquo;s move as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1936574721312923803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">&ldquo;not Constitutional.&rdquo;<\/a> He has since stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450290\/thomas-massie-no-imminent-threat-iran-attack-trump-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">there was &ldquo;no imminent threat to the United States.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the U.S.&rsquo;s strikes on Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned the foreign country against closing the Strait of Hormuz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3450279\/rubio-suicidal-iran-mine-strait-of-hormuz-after-us-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">saying this would be &ldquo;a suicidal move.&rdquo;<\/a> The strait, about 100 miles long and 21 miles wide, handles about a quarter of the world&rsquo;s oil trade, with Rubio warning Iran the &ldquo;whole world would come against them&rdquo; if this is closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2154736\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2154736\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawler criticizes Democrats for hypocrisy over Trump&#8217;s Iran strikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2450528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lawler-Iran-strikes-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[6636,3823,51639,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2450525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-hypocrisy","tag-iran","tag-law-2","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lawler-Iran-strikes-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450530,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450525\/revisions\/2450530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}