By our correspondent
WASHINGTON: Senator Elizabeth Warren has launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump, declaring the president the weakest commander-in-chief of the past four decades. Her explosive claim came as she suggested the White House was bending to Israeli demands for war with Iran.
The Massachusetts Democrat made her remarks while fielding questions on the escalating conflict. She argued that Israel had long sought to drag successive US presidents into a direct military confrontation with Tehran. The goal, she said, was to establish regional dominance.
In a moment of striking candour, Warren speculated about the dynamics between the two leaders. She said it was possible the Israeli prime minister possessed compromising material related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Such leverage, she implied, could explain the administration’s aggressive posture .
The senator suggested the president might welcome the distraction. With the Middle East ablaze, attention has shifted away from the Epstein files. The scandal had threatened to engulf the White House in its second term .
Warren’s assessment of presidential weakness carries weight. As a senior voice on the armed services committee, she has access to classified intelligence denied to most of her colleagues. Her comparison spanned four decades of incumbents, from Reagan to Biden .
She has previously described the administration’s war plans as “incoherent and incomplete”. During a recent hearing, she confronted a Pentagon official over the hypocrisy of launching an “endless war” while publishing a defence strategy that explicitly rejected interventionism .
