Lara Trump conceded that President Donald Trump’s war with Iran “could cost” Republicans the midterm elections while warning that “it doesn’t matter” who controls Congress if Tehran “gets a nuclear weapon.”
The president’s daughter-in-law and former Republican National Committee co-chair made the unusually stark assessment during an interview with British journalist Harry Cole, editor-at-large for The Sun, for his Harry Cole Saves the West show.
Turning to the Iran conflict, Cole said: “The timing couldn’t have been worse for this conflict, really. I mean, from a political point of view, it could cost him his legacy.”
“Well, it could cost him these midterms,” she replied. “I think Donald Trump’s legacy has yet to be written. And I think that, in a lot of ways, maybe, I still say he’s going to go down in history as one of the greatest presidents, if not the greatest America has ever seen. But you’re right.”
She continued: “The last two years really matter. There’s been so much positive movement and forward progress for America and for America on the world stage, America here at home in his, you know, first two years of this second term. And he wants to see that continue.”
Lara Trump also revealed that the president “really hates the way that things have gone with Iran” and had hoped “things had more swiftly happened.”
“The Iranians are absolutely holding out until these midterm elections,” she said. “They want to do everything they can to damage this president’s hopes of these midterms going his way because they think it’s going to give them an advantage. This is a rogue regime. These people are absolute lunatics over there. They’re very hard to deal with.”
She added: “But I don’t think anyone would have been able to do what this president has done in the Middle East overall, where now you have a conglomerate of countries who are now basically full-blown allies of the United States. When had we ever been able to say that before other than Israel? “
Cole later asked whether, in the “president’s mind,” Republicans losing both the House and Senate would be a “price worth paying” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“Yeah,” Trump responded. “Look, I think he just understands that when Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it doesn’t matter who is in charge of the House. It doesn’t matter the majority in the Senate. This world is a really frightening place, and you really can’t come back from that.”
Her comments come as the war increasingly collides with Republicans’ midterm campaign. The conflict began in February and has continued far longer than the short operation initially described by Trump, and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has also disrupted global oil supplies and pushed up fuel prices, leaving voters facing higher costs for daily necessities.
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