President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump is fuming over conservatives who say he’s indebted to Israel and got dragged into the Iran war by mistake.
Ms. Trump unloaded this week on her podcast, “The Right View,” saying even someone in her own family suggested Mr. Trump was too tied to America’s chief ally in the Middle East.
“I actually got a text message about a week ago or so from a member of my family, married into my family, but a member of my family nonetheless — extended family — who sort of bought into some of that … the idea that Donald Trump is being controlled by Israel,” Ms. Trump said.
She went on to defend the president’s motivations.
“He wants safety and security for us here at home. He also wants to ensure these radical lunatics don’t develop a nuclear weapon. That is why he has done this in Iran. That is why Operation Epic Fury was so necessary. Anyone who believes any of this stuff, please take a breath,” she said.
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“I had to be very honest with this family member, and I was like, ’Listen. You need to get ahold of yourself because this is crazy.’ Some of the stuff that was sent to me. I was like, ’I don’t know where you got this, but it’s all insane.’”
Ms. Trump was responding to Xaviaer DuRousseau, a PragerU host who has flipped his politics from liberal to conservative and who was appearing on Ms. Trump’s podcast.
Mr. DuRousseau said he was shocked to hear some conservatives say they believed U.S. troops were dying by the thousands in Iran.
“It seems like their perspective is totally divorced from reality,” he said.
Pentagon officials have confirmed 13 U.S. military deaths during the conflict.
The attack on Iran has roiled parts of Mr. Trump’s MAGA movement.
“Israel pushed him into this. He shouldn’t have gone along with it,” Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host who now runs his own operation, told The Economist. “This war is something he promised he wouldn’t do.”
