CNN analyst blames Trump for Iran shooting down Ukrainian airliner

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CNN national security and legal analyst Susan Hennessey, however, appeared to spread the blame between the U.S. and the regime.
"176 completely innocent lives, killed in the crossfire of reckless escalation. Just an unbelievable tragedy," Hennessey tweeted.
Hennessey's analysis raised plenty of eyebrows on social media, particularly for referring to the incident as a "crossfire" between the two nations.
"There was no crossfire. If reports are true, it means an airliner full of hundreds of people was shot down by Iran just after Iran launched strikes against Iraqi bases housing U.S. service members. The U.S. didn’t fire back then or since. No crossfire— only Iran fired that night," Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy reacted.
"What crossfire, Susan?" The Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross asked.
"Did Jeff Zucker tell these people to all tweet out the word 'Crossfire' on purpose?" conservative commentator Stephen Miller tweeted, referring to the CNN president.
Hennessey doubled down amid the criticisms, saying "When people warn of the risks of escalation, civilians being killed in accidents are part of that risk. Period. It is *explicitly* included in national security risk analysis" and that her critics have taken a "lazy, dishonest, and fundamentally cowardly position."
She told her followers, "Guys, 'how dare you blame us and not Iran' and 'debate my definition of crossfire, coward' right-wing twitter is just pretending. The answer is to roll your eyes and ignore them. They'll tire themselves out eventually."
The CNN analyst wasn't the only journalist who expressed that sentiment. NBC News correspondent Heidi Przybyla said that the plane crash was "at minimum, related to crossfire." The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum similarly wrote that Ukraine was "sucked in to a geopolitical conflict created by others" and that plane was caught "in the crossfire."
Rep. Jackie Speier, a completely deranged House Democrat, actually blamed Trump for Iran shooting down the Ukrainian airliner that killed nearly 180 people on Tuesday night:
Here’s a rush transcript of her remarks in case you don’t want to torture yourself with the video:
WOLF: Have you been briefed on it? It certainly sounds like it was a mistake by the Iranians. Do you think they assumed this was some sort of U.S. military plane?
SPEIER: I have been briefed on it. I’m not at liberty to say. But if what is being projected is true, this is yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken in a provocative way by the president of the United States.
WOLF: Is this type of miscalculation, let’s say, on the part of the Iranians more likely now to result in even heightened tensions?
SPEIER: I would say that the continued saber rattling by the president doesn’t help us. I also feel strongly that by taking out general soleimani, that that did not somehow rid us of any of the planning that the Iranians would be doing or that the shia militia that is throughout the region is also engaged in doing. And we also have the leader of the shia militia who was assassinated as well. That may be the subject of some efforts to seek revenge. This needs to be deescalated. The president needs to stop saber rattling ask find a way to use our allies to find a means by not just tamping this down, but getting Iran to the table, where we can renegotiate a joint agreement on the use of nuclear weapons and move forward in a manner that is not as bellicose a as the president has been as he addresses Iran. Iran has been a bad actor. Soleimani was a bad actor. There are many people who are bad actors. We have to find a way to live together and attempt to move towards peace.
Speier must be living in an alternative universe because her analysis doesn’t comport in any way with the facts of what happened. Trump got this right and saved American lives. In doing so he also prevented a potential war from breaking out. Yet Democrats like Speier are so dishonest and deranged over their hatred for Trump that they’d have the American people believe that Trump is the aggressor here, when it was Iran that started this entire row by killing an American military contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base via their local militia.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer should be ashamed of himself for allowing Speier to spout this incredible nonsense without any challenge whatsoever. We’re talking kook-level nonsense too. Instead, he played into her false narrative by asking if Iran shooting down the Ukrainian plane would increase tensions even more, when the opposite is happening. Tensions are actually decreasing now that the Iranians got to save face by firing a few missiles at an empty Iraqi airbase. The US didn’t even respond and yet Trump is being blamed for Iran mistaking a freaking Boeing 737 for a missile? Good grief.

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