00:00Connecticut Senator and potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate Chris Murphy
00:04is getting slammed for what critics call a shameful ex-post. In it, he appeared to applaud
00:10a disputed report that dozens of Iranian shadow vessels were able to bypass the U.S. naval blockade
00:16in the Strait of Hormuz. Senator Murphy reposted a link to a Lloyd's List report claiming 26 vessels
00:22got past the U.S. blockade, and he added to it just one word, quote, awesome. After getting a
00:28lot of blowback for the post, Murphy claimed that he was just being sarcastic. A follow-up reads,
00:33quote, okay, Twitter, I can't believe I need to clarify this, but obviously Trump's bungled
00:38mismanagement of this war is not awesome. As I have said a million times here, it's a disaster,
00:44and he should end the war immediately. My tweet was something called sarcasm. Murphy's a staunch
00:49critic of the war, as you can tell, and has trashed it and the president publicly over the past several
00:54weeks. As for that Lloyd's List report, the Pentagon's chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell,
01:00denied the accuracy of it, posting on X himself. Quote, first of all, this is false. Second,
01:05a Dem senator cheering on the number one state sponsor of terror is shameful.
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