Monday on Fox Business Network's "The Evening Edit," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) touted President Donald Trump's decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites and the ensuing ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
Tuberville, who is seeking the GOP nomination in Alabama's gubernatorial race, thanked Trump for having the "guts" to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.
"[F]irst of all, President Trump, thanks to him. He had the guts to do it. Barack Obama tried to pay them off with $1.7 billion; Joe Biden stopped the sanctions and gave them all that money and ran for cover in Bagram Air Force Base, but President Trump blew the hell out of them. And it's obvious that that worked. Today, they showed a little bit of a retaliatory response to it, but the Mullahs are running for cover. They know they're going to lose their power if they don't do something, but thanks to President Trump and our military personnel for how they did this. It's been planned for years. They've been practicing this on and off, but, finally, it came to fruition. It worked, and now we've got the Mullahs on the run."
"Finally, with somebody pulling the trigger and making something happen over there to show that we really mean business, thank goodness to President Trump for doing that. I know he took a lot of flak for it. A lot of people were second-guessing his actions, but at the end of the day, something like this had to be done to let them know, 'Hey, we know what's going on. We're not going to let you build nuclear weapons. We're not going to try to change out your regime. You need to do that on your own, but we are here; we're not going to allow that to happen.'"
Host Elizabeth McDonald asked Tuberville if he thought Iran was on the brink of collapse.
"I think they've got huge problems," he replied.
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