{"id":3764,"date":"2026-07-22T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:42:02","slug":"maga-lawmaker-forced-to-break-with-trump-when-cornered-by-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"MAGA lawmaker forced to break with Trump when cornered by press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Wednesday, when confronted with President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to downplay the lethality of his war with Iran, MAGA-oriented Representative Pat Harrigan (R-NC) was forced to admit that he disagreed with the Commander in Chief after initially dancing around the truth. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3762\">Conservative lays waste to the \u2018death toll\u2019 of Trump\u2019s lies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrigan was cornered by Spectrum News White House correspondent Reuben Jones, who <u>first asked the lawmaker<\/u> whether Trump was wrong when he claimed that Iran\u2019s military had been destroyed weeks ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey weren\u2019t specific enough,\u201d Harrigan replied. \u201cAnd at the end of the day you have to parse out, we have destroyed Iran\u2019s ability to produce new ballistic missiles and new drones. Totally destroyed. Their defense industrial base is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the military\u2019s not destroyed,\u201d Jones persisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have substantial inventories of both of those two things that we have to be very cognizant of,\u201d Harrigan admitted, noting, \u201cThe longer this goes, the more American soldiers that we stand to lose, there\u2019s no question about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you wouldn\u2019t say that the military is destroyed?\u201d Jones pressed again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military and their capability is degraded, not destroyed,\u201d Harrigan conceded. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3760\">\u2018Scared straight\u2019: Once bitten Fox leery of backing Trump\u2019s latest election fantasy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones then raised the matter of the Trump administration&#8217;s request for a Pentagon budget of $88 billion dollars, suggesting that, \u201cSome might say, well, if the administration doesn\u2019t seem to have a clear grasp of what Iran\u2019s military capability is, why would we give them tens of billions of dollars more to spend?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a couple of reasons,\u201d said Harrigan, claiming that he thinks the administration has been clear about what he says were five initial objectives laid out by the White House at the beginning of the war, but admitting, \u201cI think there has been some unclarity about how far are we along those strategic initiatives to what you would consider mission complete.\u201d He then argued that the Pentagon needs more money for the war to prevent it from making cuts to other programs, which would \u201cput the United States of America at significant strategic risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones then shifted the conversation to a new post from Trump, in which he listed the death toll of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea, then noted that the Venezuelan \u201cWar\u201d lasted only one day with zero dead, while the Iran \u201cMilitary Conflict\u201d had gone on for only four months with &#8220;18 DEAD.\u201d The <u>reporter then asked<\/u> Harrigan whether Trump\u2019s post minimized the deaths of American soldiers killed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At that the lawmaker struggled to disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, anybody can go just a few miles away from here to Arlington National Cemetery and see that this incredible country that we\u2019ve built has been bought at an incredible price, and we should never diminish or demean that in any way, shape, or form,\u201d Harrigan admitted. \u201cI also don\u2019t think comparisons are a great idea. I think we have to look and say, well, look, we have had sacrifices in this conflict. We don\u2019t want to have more, but for those we have had and those we may have in the future, we\u2019d better earn their sacrifice with the right outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3759\">War brewing: Trump gathers fresh DOJ hounds to menace state officials<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, when confronted with President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to downplay the lethality of his war with Iran, MAGA-oriented Representative Pat Harrigan (R-NC) was forced to admit that he disagreed with the Commander in Chief after initially dancing around the truth. 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