The MAGA base is split over President Trump’s recent foreign policy moves…
Popular conservative pundit Candace Owens said she’s “embarrassed” she supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election following his decision to bomb multiple nuclear facilities in Iran.
“This is not the candidate that I voted for,” Owens told Morgan in a wide-ranging interview on his YouTube show Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Owens has long been a supporter of the president and was among the many prominent media supporters that urged Trump to stay out of the conflict. This faction of the MAGA movement noted that Trump campaigned on extracting the United States from foreign conflicts, and clashed with pro-war supporters of the president like Laura Loomer, who recently dubbed Owens, “Tehran Candy.”
“It’s all of the same rhetoric dating back to 9/11. All of the same tactic trying to smear people who are against this war as ‘jihadists,’” Owens told Morgan, arguing that conflict between Israel and Iran was “simply not our business.”
“There was no imminent threat to the United States when Trump made this decision to do what Bibi wanted,” Owens said, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This was not Trump’s decision it was Bibi Netanyahu’s decision. And that is the reason that he did it. We’re very aware that Israel is dictating our foreign policy, and we’d now like that to stop.”
Owens, who first voiced opposition to the United States’ potential bombing last week, said she now sees her support of Trump in a different light.
“He’s been a chronic disappointment,” said Owens. “And I feel embarrassed that I told people to go vote for him because this wasn’t going to happen and it is happening.”
Owens said there was “no imminent threat” to the United States while slamming Trump’s Sunday strikes. However, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and others have alleged that Iran was nowhere near obtaining nuclear weapon capability, which the president adamantly denied.
“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Tuesday.
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Other well-known voices within the MAGA base have also criticized the President’s recent move against Iran.
Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) engaged in an explosive argument with Fox News host Mark Levin online which eventually spilled over to another interview on One America News.
Speaking to OAN’s The Matt Gaetz Show, Greene stepped up the MAGA civil war by laying into Levin and questioning his support for President Donald Trump.
The two conservatives have clashed over Levin’s support Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, while Greene has opposed it. She told CNN on Monday: “I got elected on the exact same campaign promises that President Trump got elected on. We promised: no more foreign wars, no more regime change.”
Earlier in the day, she wrote in a lengthy post on X that Trump’s decision to authorize US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend “feels like a complete bait and switch” on the MAGA agenda.
Damn Deep Stater Moron
What does Candace Owens not understand about the disaster that Iran would cause
when they used the nuclear weapons they were developing ??
So she says, but now I am disappointed that I believed that she is a conservative voice
Oh boy, more wishy-washy MAGA types. Not true believers. The World is a complicated place and there are times that someone needs to put on their pants and make hard decisions, more often than not, it is the USA that has to do that. It is not a matter of Foreign wars or no Foreign wars, it is a matter of keeping dangerous toys out of dangerous hands. Get your head on straight and don’t try to appease the nay-sayers. I quit listening to Candice years ago and don’t intend to start anytime soon.
Did Candace fall over and hit her head?