Previous messages from President Biden and one of his top Twitter advisers – both criticizing former President Trump – did not appear to age well on Thursday after Biden ordered air strikes against an Iran-backed militia stronghold in Syria.
In 2017, Jen Psaki, now press secretary of the White House, questioned what the Trump administration’s “legal strike authority” was in Syria after a military action ordered by Trump.
“Assad is a brutal dictator,” she tweeted, “but Syria is a sovereign country.”
When Psaki’s almost four-year-old tweet surfaced, many Twitter users appreciated the irony.
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“Hey girl! Assuming you circled back to this one, huh?” a user wrote.
“Great tweet. I hope you condemn @JoeBiden’s illegal attacks at your press conference tomorrow,” commented another person.
Even progressive US deputy Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Retweeted Psaki’s old post, sarcastically writing “Great question”.
In April 2017, the Trump administration launched air strikes against Syria in retaliation for an attack with chemical weapons that the Assad regime carried out against its own people.
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In October 2019, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden called President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria “erratic” and “impulsive”.
“Last week’s events … had devastating clarity on how dangerous this president is,” said Biden during a speech in Iowa about Trump’s decision, which critics saw as an “abandonment” of Kurdish allies in the region.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki and President Biden criticized former President Donald Trump’s actions in Syria.
In Thursday’s attack, the Biden government targeted Shiite militia groups based on the Iraqi border, Kait’ib Hezbollah and Kait’ib Sayyid al Shuhada, who are suspected of receiving funding and military support from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard from Iran.
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A senior official said the attack was a “cross-shot” and defensive strategy, aimed at preventing Iran and its militia from launching rockets against US forces in the region, such as the recent attacks in Iraq.