{"id":1298,"date":"2025-06-23T22:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2025-06-24T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:33:33","slug":"charlamagne-says-dems-sound-like-hypocrites-for-demanding-congressional-approval-for-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/charlamagne-says-dems-sound-like-hypocrites-for-demanding-congressional-approval-for-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlamagne says Dems 'sound like hypocrites' for demanding congressional approval for strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radio host Charlamagne tha God called out Democrats on Monday for their outrage about President Donald Trump<\/a> launching strikes on Iran without congressional authority, saying they turned a blind eye when Democrats recently did the same.<\/p>\n

The U.S. launched a surprise strike<\/a> using B-2 stealth bombers on Iran\u2019s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities on Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“All three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” Joint Chiefs Chairman Air Force Gen. Dan Caine said during a briefing at the Pentagon on Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., called out Trump for the strikes during a Sunday appearance on NBC\u2019s “Meet the Press,”<\/a> arguing the head of state should have begun the process by first “coming to Congress and asking for authorization to do this.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He continued, “That’s the constitutional approach to this. He could have talked to us about what the goal is and what the plan is ahead of time. And we could have had a discussion about it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Charlamagne agreed, but argued Democrats like Kelly should look in the mirror.<\/p>\n

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“Morgyn, this is one of those times when politicians sound like hypocrites, because Mark Kelly is right, the president should get congressional approval,” he said about the national war powers debate<\/a>. “But there have been a bunch of presidents who have ordered strikes without congressional approval.”<\/p>\n

“Barack Obama did it against Libya. Joe Biden ordered strikes in Iraq and Syria without congressional approval. Bill Clinton did it with – ‘Kosovo’ I think you pronounce it?” he recalled. “So presidents ordering military action without congressional approval has become pretty routine.”<\/p>\n

Co-host Morgyn V. Wood noted that this issue is now being cited for possible impeachment.<\/p>\n

“So why didn’t it lead to an impeachment for everybody else? Like, when Barack Obama did it, when Biden did it, when Clinton did it?” Charlamagne asked.<\/p>\n

Wood said that there have been calls for impeachment over presidents\u2019 military actions without congressional approval before, but Charlamagne was not persuaded.<\/p>\n

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“I don\u2019t even remember hearing about it during the Joe Biden administration,” Charlamagne said.<\/p>\n

“I guess that\u2019s just because of the way Trump has been moving,” co-host DJ Envy said. “But we didn\u2019t hear about it when Obama did it. We didn\u2019t hear about it when Biden did it.”<\/p>\n

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“I do remember when Obama did it,” Charlamagne said. “When Obama did it, I do remember, you know, people in Congress saying he needed congressional approval, and they were making it a thing. I don\u2019t remember the Biden thing at all. I don\u2019t remember that even making a headline.”<\/p>\n

After Wood recalled the widespread outrage over Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Charlamagne said he recalled Biden\u2019s lack of accountability for military missteps after an NBC News piece<\/a> headlined, “Presidents’ ordering military action without Congress’ approval has become routine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radio host Charlamagne tha God called out Democrats on Monday for their outrage about President Donald Trump launching strikes on Iran without congressional authority, saying they turned a blind eye when Democrats recently did the same. The U.S. launched a surprise strike using B-2 stealth bombers on Iran\u2019s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}