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Dem Senator Who Mocked Trump As ‘Literal Laughingstock’ After Killing Of Soleimani Holds Secret Meeting With Iranian Official, Report Says

Hank Berrien
Dem Senator Who Mocked Trump As ‘Literal Laughingstock’ After Killing Of Soleimani Holds Secret Meeting With Iranian Official, Report Says
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The Democratic senator who mocked President Trump after Trump ordered the killing of Iranian general and terror leader Qassem Soleimani, saying Trump had ‘made us a literal laughingstock” around the world, held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference.

The Federalist reports that Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who had mocked Trump in early January, joined other Democratic senators for that secret meeting. What makes Murphy’s action particularly hypocritical is that in the past, he has bitterly slammed the idea that senators might interfere with a current administration’s foreign policy.

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