Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s job is to implement President Trump’s foreign policy.
Rubio faced his biggest challenge.
And Marco Rubio said two words about Iran that made everyone’s ears perk up.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
The Trump administration faced questions about why it chose now to launch a war with Iran.
Secretary of State Rubio claimed it was because the administration had intelligence that Iran planned an imminent attack.
Rubio then revealed that the “imminent” attack America faced was that Israel planned to attack Iran, and Iran would respond by firing missiles at American bases.
“There absolutely was an imminent threat. And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we were not gonna sit there and absorb a blow before we responded,” Rubio told reporters.
“Because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for Iran to hit us first after they were attacked by someone else — Israel attacked them, they hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths,” he continued. “We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting more serious damage. Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was gonna happen, and we didn’t act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life,” Rubio added.
Rubio’s comments caused a frenzy among prominent Trump supporters.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh expressed disbelief that Rubio would admit that Israel’s plan of attack forced America’s hand.
“So he’s flat out telling us that we’re in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said,” Walsh declared.
The Federalist co-founder and CEO Sean Davis said Rubio was just speaking honestly.
“I’m thankful for Rubio for clearly laying out the primary rationale for why this had to happen now. There’s a famous quote, possibly apocryphal, from J.P. Morgan that every man has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason, and the real reason. Rubio very straightforwardly gave us the real reason,” Davis wrote on X.
24 hours later, President Trump said Rubio was incorrect and that he was the one who forced Israel’s hand after concluding that Iran wasn’t serious about cutting a deal and was planning an attack of their own.
“No… Based on the way the negotiation was going, I think Iran was going to attack first, and I didn’t want that to happen — so if anything, I might’ve forced Israel’s hand,” Trump said during an Oval Office event.
While some prominent voices on the right are opposed to war with Iran, polls show that around 75 percent of Republicans support the President’s decision.