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MAGA movement divided over Trump’s move to bomb Iran
From CNN's Eric Bradner
US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance sit in the White House Situation Room on Saturday as they monitor the mission that took out three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites.
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President Donald Trump’s MAGA sphere of conservative media and influencers – many of whom had expressed skepticism before
his decision to
bomb Iranian nuclear facilities – is divided over the president’s dramatic move to strike.
Many of its most prominent figures rallied around Trump. But others sharply criticized the decision, said they want to see more explanation than his brief Saturday night speech, or warned of a drawn-out conflict.
Ahead of Saturday’s bombing, the prospect of United States involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict had opened rifts in the GOP. Trump himself had ripped the United States’ involvement in wars in the Middle East as a presidential candidate, and his “Make America Great Again” movement includes many more isolationist voices aligned with his “America First” vision. Those voices were at odds in recent days with GOP hawks who advocated a muscular US role in supporting Israel in its bid to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
But after Trump’s Saturday night announcement, some prominent MAGA voices rallied around the president. Others, however, expressed skepticism toward any broader mission in Iran.
Read more about the MAGA divide here.