{"id":604140,"date":"2026-05-19T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604140"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:38:54","slug":"former-gop-rep-accuses-trump-of-backing-down-on-iran-threat-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604140","title":{"rendered":"Former GOP rep accuses Trump of \u2018backing down\u2019 on Iran threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dealmaking called for disparagement from a former congressman after President Donald Trump announced what he considered a \u201cdamaging\u201d stand down from a planned attack on Iran.<\/p>\n

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Never Trump naysaying has oft-demonstrated that there is nothing the president can do that won\u2019t be spun as negative. Now, weeks after taking heat for threatening \u201cA whole civilization will die\u201d in regard to the Islamist regime, the commander-in-chief\u2019s announcement about setting a planned attack on standby found former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R) griping about Trump allegedly being \u201ceager to back down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday on \u201cCNN News Central,\u201d CNN anchors Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanches welcomed the RINO\u2019s reaction to Trump\u2019s statement that he was holding off an attack on Iran per the request of leaders in the Middle East on the pretense of an impending deal.<\/p>\n

Keilar began, \u201cThe president has this habit of making these threats about essentially \u2014 not even essentially \u2014 about destroying Iran and then not following through on them. There\u2019s obviously questions about whether he should have made the threats in the first place, but I wonder what your reaction is to him again finding an off-ramp from his threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s the whole thing. This is so damaging, you know,\u201d argued Kinzinger. \u201cRegardless of \u2014 let\u2019s just be, you know, agnostic on whether he should attack again or not for the moment. When you make threats and then you\u2019re eager to back down from those threats, which he has been ever single time \u2014 I mean, he\u2019s gone from \u2018we will destroy an entire civilization\u2019 to \u2018we have a deal,\u2019 which we never actually had, by the way, claiming the strait\u2019s open, claiming it\u2019s closed, claiming he was gonna pull the trigger on May 19, and now everybody wants him to deal- \u2026 like, you lose all of your strategic, like, strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seemingly without regard for how negotiations were playing out behind the scenes, the former congressman continued, \u201cOne of the greatest things the United States has is our ability to say we will do something, the enemy knows that, and then hopefully we won\u2019t have to do that. This has just been like: threat, back off, threat, back off. And I haven\u2019t seen the Iranians move in any way here. And we find ourselves in the worst-case scenario, which is a closed strait; this nebulous future. And gas is now having to price in, and futures are pricing in the uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kinzinger presented doubts about the outcome in the Middle East, saying, \u201cAre they going to actually denuclearize them or whatever? I don\u2019t know,\u201d which remained the key stated objective from the administration.<\/p>\n

As Trump said on Truth Social, \u201cThis Deal will include, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While the president expressed his respect for Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, he noted that the \u201cfull, large-scale assault of Iran\u201d would be ready to launch \u201con a moment\u2019s notice\u201d should a deal not be reached. In other words, Trump hasn\u2019t backed off his threat.<\/p>\n

Still, Kinzinger insisted, \u201cI think Donald Trump needs to figure out: if we resume hostilities with Iran, you need to have a plan in place to reopen that strait and stick to the use of the military until it\u2019s done, or quit these threats because it\u2019s just making it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dealmaking called for disparagement from a former congressman after President Donald Trump announced what he considered a \u201cdamaging\u201d stand down from a planned attack on Iran. (Video Credit: CNN) Never Trump naysaying has oft-demonstrated that there is nothing the president can do that won\u2019t be spun as negative. Now, weeks after taking heat for threatening… Continue reading Former GOP rep accuses Trump of \u2018backing down\u2019 on Iran threat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}