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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) defended President Donald Trump’s profanity-laced Easter statement about the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, saying the president is right to be frustrated by the problems he’s created.
“He’s not wrong. Let’s put it like that,” Ernst told reporters at the Capitol. “I know the president is really frustrated, and we do want to see the straits opened. It’s not just good for the United States, but it’s good for Europe and so many other countries.”
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Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, causing a dramatic increase in oil prices, in response to U.S. and Israeli airstrikes last month.
“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,” Trump wrote on Easter Sunday, vowing to commit war crimes by attacking civilian infrastructure. Ernst said attacking the infrastructure, such as bridges and power plants, wouldn’t be a war crime because the Iranian military also uses it.
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One Republican, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), said Trump’s post showed he has “gone insane” and that Republicans who aren’t speaking out are complicit in the president’s madness.
