Comedian Dave Smith apologized for voting for President Donald Trump and called for his impeachment over his handling of the Iran-Israel conflict.
Smith, a frequent guest on
“The Joe Rogan Experience,”
admitted in a new
podcast episode of “Breaking Points”
that he regretted voting for Trump. He criticized Trump’s handling of the Iran-Israel conflict after the president urged Iran to make a deal about its nuclear program.
Smith argued that the missiles Iran launched toward Israel last year were not “really their best,” noting that Iran will likely not come to the negotiating table at Trump’s request.
“They were intentionally making an attack that wouldn’t really hurt anybody, that wouldn’t really lead to a war, which Iran has done over and over again. But now we’ve pushed them to the point where they probably don’t feel that they have the option not to respond,” Smith said in the episode that aired Monday. “Donald Trump telling him to come back to the negotiating table now is a joke.”
“I mean, what an impotent leader to be sitting there talking about coming back to the negotiating table. It’s like sitting after Pearl Harbor and telling FDR, ‘Now is the time to go negotiate with the Japanese.’ Negotiations are over now. The time for negotiations was before this,” he added.
Throughout his campaign, Trump said he would stop “endless wars” and vowed to be a
president of “peace.”
Trump
reiterated his call
for Iran and Israel to make a deal about its nuclear program on Sunday. Trump, who
previously said
he did not want Israel
to strike Iran, also warned that the U.S. would retaliate if Iran tried to attack the U.S.
Smith called for Trump to be impeached over his handling of the conflict.
“I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one, but he should be impeached and removed for this one,” Smith said, noting that Congress would never do it.
“Donald Trump should be impeached and removed for this. All of his supporters should turn on him,” he added. “It’s the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.”
True to his word,
@ComicDaveSmith
apologizes for his Trump support and even calls for Trump’s impeachment and removal!! after Trump helps launch Iran War. Full segment will post shortly.
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Smith also warned that Trump will lose some support over Iran and Israel, predicting that this could hurt his deportation efforts.
“He is going to lose his coalition over this,” Smith said. I know I don’t just speak for myself, but I say there are a lot of us who simply will not go along with this, so it’s just a devastating mistake, by the way.“
“On top of that, he’s also going to lose the deportation fight because of this, because right now he needed all the political capital he could have to turn that, you know, you got a majority support for deportations, but the minority is very mobilized, and they’re out and they’re protesting all around the country. He needed all of his political capital for that move,” he added.
The latest conflict began when Israel launched an assault on Iran’s top military leaders, uranium enrichment sites and nuclear scientists that it said was necessary to prevent its longtime adversary from getting any closer to
building an atomic weapon
.
Iran maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful, and the U.S. and others have assessed that Tehran has not pursued a nuclear weapon since 2003. But the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has
repeatedly warned
that the country has enough enriched uranium
to make several nuclear bombs
if it chooses to do so.
Iran has retaliated by firing waves of ballistic missiles at Israel. The back-and-forth has raised concerns about all-out war between the countries and propelled the region,
already on edge
, into even greater upheaval.
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