Fetterman scoffs at AOC's push to impeach Trump after Iran strikes: ‘That's not going anywhere'
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman brushed aside far-left 'Squad' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's clamoring to impeach President Trump over his Saturday strikes against three of Iran's nuclear facilities.
Fetterman (D-Pa.), who lauded the attack, warned that Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) threat reduces the significance of impeachment, which he implied should be reserved for more extreme circumstances.
'Of course, no, she knows it. I know it. We all know it,' Fetterman told Fox News' 'America's Newsroom' when asked about the possibility of Trump getting impeached over the strikes.
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'That's not going anywhere on. And you know, he's been impeached twice, and now he's still our president,' the Keystone State lawmaker added.
'I think if you throw that term around, that actually diminishes what the severity of what impeachment is really reserved for.'
On Saturday, Trump announced that he had ordered strikes on Iran's Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear facilities. Top military officials are still assessing the damage done during the strikes, but Trump claimed there had been 'monumental damage' done.
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4 Sen. John Fetterman ripped into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's assertion that President Trump should be impeached.
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4 AOC, seen with anti-Israel Columbia protester, Mahmoud Khalil, called the US strikes against Iran a 'grave violation of the Constitution.'
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Shortly after the announcement, Ocasio-Cortez publicly declared that Trump's actions rose to the level of impeachment.
'The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,' Ocasio-Cortez fumed after Trump announced the attack.
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'He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.'
Other Democrats echoed that argument as well, with Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) calling it an 'unambiguous impeachable offense.'
Despite those calls, Democratic leadership has declined to go that far, though they did rebuke him for the attacks and argued that he should've properly consulted Congress before launching the airstrikes.
'I think impeachment is not a wide sentiment. That's fringes,' a top Democratic source previously told The Post.
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Fetterman, who has emerged as one of the most outspoken pro-Israel voices among Democrats in Congress, praised Trump for ordering the strikes.
'There's going to be a lot of people in my party that are going to disagree with the strike in Iran, and I actually support that. I've been always calling for that,' the senator told 'America's Newsroom.'
4 The strikes against Iran were intended to take out Tehran's nuclear facilities, which Israel was generally seen as unable to fully take out.
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'For me, that's not a war. That was a very limited military exercise, and it struck that, and then that's where we're at,' he added. 'It really wasn't about unconstitutional or it's anything like that. It was like a very, very limited military engagement.'
The Pennsylvanian had previously called for the US to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, warning about the consequences of the theocratic regime obtaining such a weapon.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas surprise attack against Israel, Fetterman has repeatedly butted heads with the far-left faction of his party and has been steadfastly supportive of the Jewish state.
'Our party has been often wrong, and they were pushing for a ceasefire last year. And now Israel pushed through that and has broken Hamas and Hezbollah,' he added. 'Israel has air supremacy over [Iran] right now.'
'Their capabilities are severely limited. And now that was an entirely appropriate to finally take out those nuclear facilities.'
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4 Trump in the White House Situation Room.
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After Fetterman's interview, almost a dozen Iranian missiles flew at America's Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, all of which appear to have been intercepted, according to initial statements from officials.
Al Udeid Air Base is America's largest base in the Middle East.
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