MAGA Goon Squirms When Cornered on Trump’s Wild War Threat
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MAGA Goon Squirms When Cornered on Trump’s Wild War Threat

April 7, 2026
The Daily Beast
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CNNA Republican congressman struggled to explain away the president’s apocalyptic Iran threat—insisting Trump’s brazen words actually mean something else entirely. Rep. Mike Lawler, 39, found himself on the defensive Tuesday morning when CNN’s John Berman pressed him on Trump’s latest Truth Social post, in which the president warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”Berman, 54, cut straight to it: If Trump, 79, follows through on his self-imposed 8 p.m.

MAGA Goon Squirms When Cornered on Trump’s Wild War Threat

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