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- Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah dramatically walked back his comments this week about President Donald Trump's decision to order an airstrike that killed Iran's top military general, Qassem Soleimani.
- On Wednesday, following a Senate briefing on the matter, Lee skewered Trump officials, said it was "the worst briefing" on a military issue he'd seen in his congressional career, and said he would support a War Powers Resolution that would dramatically curtail Trump's military powers.
- On Thursday, Lee reversed course and heaped praise on the president, saying: "I applaud this president. I support this president. This president has been fantastic. He's been unprecedentedly deferential to the American people, and restrained in his use of the commander in chief power, more than any other president in my lifetime."
- Lee did not elaborate on what he found to be "deferential" and "restrained" in Trump's decision to assassinate a foreign military official and the second most powerful person in the Iranian regime.
- But he did have time to give an exclusive interview to the far-right website Breitbart News, in which he said Trump's actions were "legally, morally, justifiable and fully constitutional."
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Here's what Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah had to say on Wednesday after a Senate briefing on President Donald Trump's decision to order an airstrike last week that killed Iran's top military general, Qassem Soleimani:
- "Probably the worst briefing, at least on a military issue, I've seen in nine years I've been here."
- "Drive-by notification or after-the-fact lame briefings like the one we just received aren't adequate."
- "I find it insulting; I find it demeaning" to the Senate and the Constitution. "It's un-American, it's unconstitutional, and it's wrong," he said, referring to when administration officials who briefed senators on Trump's strike said the lawmakers could not debate the merits of the measure.
- Despite walking into the briefing "undecided" on whether to support a War Powers Resolution that would drastically limit Trump's ability to wage war with Iran, "that briefing is what changed my mind ... I'm now going to support it."
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