Matt Walsh Goes On Tear Against Iran Strikes — White House Rushes To Defend

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh unloaded on fellow right-leaning influencers Monday, accusing them of “gaslighting” their audiences after they rallied behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping military campaign against Iran.

After negotiations deteriorated and tensions spiked, U.S. forces carried out targeted attacks on Iran Saturday, with Trump declaring in a lengthy Truth Social address that the campaign, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, is striking the regime’s defense apparatus and atomic facilities. Walsh wrote in a Monday evening X post that many conservatives who now insist Tehran has waged war on the United States for nearly five decades had not made that case until the moment Trump launched strikes.

“I can’t take the gaslighting, guys. I really can’t. Conservatives are now running around saying ‘Iran has been waging war on us for 47 years.’ Okay then why didn’t any of you call for an attack on Iran at any point until now? Why didn’t you make a case for Trump “ending the war, not starting it” until precisely the moment when Trump did it? You and I both know that you are latching onto a talking point you never used until 45 seconds ago,” Walsh wrote.

In another post, sent earlier Monday, Walsh took aim at what he characterized as conflicting statements from the administration and its allies.

“So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war. And although we obliterated their nuclear program, we had to do this because of their nuclear program. And although Iran was not planning any attacks on the US, they also might have been, depending on who you ask,” Walsh wrote in the Monday morning post. “And although we are not fighting this war to free the Iranian people, they are now free, or might be, depending on who seizes power, and we have no idea who that will be. The messaging on this thing is, to put it mildly, confused.”