{"id":20163,"date":"2026-04-10T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/20163\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:36:08","slug":"democrats-criticism-of-iran-is-so-phony-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/20163\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 criticism of Iran is \u2018so phony\u2019: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Examiner columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> said <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\">Democrats\u2019 <\/a>criticism of the war in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a> is unwarranted and \u201cso phony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that both Democratic and Republican presidents \u201chave said, \u2018We have to do something about Iran,\u2019 and finally <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> did something about Iran, and now [Democrats] have a problem with that. It\u2019s just all so phony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president here is acting on principle,\u201d Concha said Thursday on Fox Business\u2019s The Evening Edit.<\/p>\n<p>Host Elizabeth MacDonald pulled up a clip of Senate Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) in 2015 in which he slammed then-President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> weak Iran deal. MacDonald and Concha said Schumer\u2019s current criticism of President Trump is cynical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe switched his position,\u201d Concha said.\u00a0\u201cThis guy is a weather vane in a tornado. He will say whatever he thinks is politically expedient at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4523538\/trump-iran-tolls-oil-tankers-strait-of-hormuz\/\">TRUMP SAYS OIL WILL FLOW \u2018WITH OR WITHOUT\u2019 IRAN\u2019S HELP, WARNS AGAINST TANKER FEES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also talked about Democrats\u2019 push to invoke the 25th Amendment under Trump, but that Democrats ran from it when then-President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden\u2019s <\/a>cognitive health was under fire. Concha said Trump is a leader people see in front of cameras every day, going through extensive questioning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s brain turned to mashed potatoes some time ago,\u201d Concha said. \u201cIt is the ultimate eye-rolling moment of \u2018You got to be kidding me\u2019 at this point.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said Democrats\u2019 criticism of the war in Iran is unwarranted and \u201cso phony.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[10152,504,486,12,34,3461],"class_list":{"0":"post-20163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chuck-schumer","8":"tag-25th-amendment","9":"tag-chuck-schumer","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-joe-biden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116381154817720775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}