Earlier Twitter messages from President Biden and one of his top aides – both of whom criticized former President Trump – did not appear to be good on Thursday after Biden ordered airstrikes on an Iranian-backed militia in Syria.
In 2017, Jen Psaki, now White House press secretary, questioned what the Trump administration’s ‘legal authority for strikes’ was in Syria after a military action ordered by Trump.
“Assad is a cruel dictator,” she tweeted, “but Syria is a sovereign country.”
When Psaki’s nearly four – year – old tweet resurfaced, many Twitter users appreciated the irony.
US launches aviation against Iranian forces in Syria
“Hey girl! Guess you circled back to this one, right?” wrote one user.
“Good tweet. I look forward to you condemning @ JoeBiden’s illegal strikes in your press conference tomorrow,” another person said.
Even the progressive American representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Tweeted Psaki’s old message again and sarcastically wrote “Great question.”
In April 2017, the Trump administration launched airstrikes on Syria in retaliation for an attack on chemical weapons carried out by the Assad regime against its own people.
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In October 2019, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden called then-President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria “erratic” and “impulsive.”
“The events of the past week … have had a devastating effect on how dangerous this president is,” Biden said during a speech in Iowa on Trump’s decision, which critics say ‘left’ Kurdish allies in the region. .
White House press secretary Jen Psaki and President Biden have both criticized actions in Syria taken by former President Donald Trump.
In Thursday’s attack, the Biden government targeted Iraqi border-based Shiite groups, Kait’ib Hezbollah and Kait’ib Sayyid al Shuhada, who allegedly received funding and military support from Iran’s Islamic revolutionary guard.
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A senior official said the strike was a “shot in the arm” and a defensive strategy, intended to deter Iran and its militia from sending rockets at U.S. troops in the region, such as the recent attacks in Iraq.