CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday caught Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) making highly contradictory comments, resulting in an awkward admission about his support for U.S. regime change in Iran — and a pledge of trust in President Donald Trump to handle it.
“The Source” host noted that Trump has vowed to “come to their rescue” if the Iranian government “kills peaceful protestors,” which ongoing demonstrations there have shown is actually happening, and asked Mullin if he’s in favor of U.S. strikes and of “taking out” the regime.
He confirmed, “I would support removing the regime that’s killing their own people.”
Mullin added, “Even though we’re not into regime change, we’re not— this isn’t the Arab Spring like it happened underneath Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. And if that leadership is going to kill their own people, the president said we’ll come to your rescue.”
Mullin seemed to suggest that Trump intervening in Iran would be different than then-President Barack Obama bombing Libya in 2011, after which Clinton celebrated the killing of its leader Muammar Gaddafi by rebel forces, but Collins had already caught him slipping.
