Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has accused Donald Trump of participating in ‘war crimes‘ in Iran.
Coulter, 64, leveled the accusation over the course of a series of X posts on Sunday.
She had been reacting to a March 5 headline from The New York Times that questioned whether Trump’s threat to bring ‘Hell’ to Iranians in a Sunday Truth Social post constituted a ‘war crime‘.
Coulter wrote: ‘Could they be war crimes OUTSIDE of Iran, @nytimes?’
She went on to quote the president in full, before offering a follow-up that said the constant liberal drumbeat of outrage about Trump was to blame for the relatively muted reaction to his bombing of Iran.
‘I really wish “legal experts” hadn’t screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he’s actually committing war crimes,’ she exclaimed.
Coulter’s 2016 book, ‘In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!’, was one of Trump’s first major endorsements, with the president said to have been inspired by Coulter’s hardline takes on immigration.
The pair’s relationship soured roughly eight years ago. At the time, Coulter claimed Trump had failed to deliver on his border wall.
Ann Coulter, 64, accused Donald Trump of overseeing in ‘war crimes’ in Iran on social media Sunday Sunday
Trump previously threatened to send Iran ‘back to the Stone Ages’, before threatening the regime with ‘Hell’ this week
She offered him an endorsement in 2024, albeit begrudgingly.
Her Sunday posts were part of a more recent salvo surrounding the Iran war.
Trump wrote on Truth Social just hours before: ‘Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F****n’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!
‘Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP’.
The post earned a steady stream criticism from figures all the way from Alex Jones to Joe Scarborough.
Coulter – a devout Republican – reshared a reaction from CNN’s Manu Raju.
Raju – while welcoming the Times’ Zolan Kanno-Youngs to his show Sunday – highlighted how Trump on Wednesday told reporters: We don’t need [the Strait of Hormuz.] We haven’t needed it, and we don’t need it.’
‘And now he’s saying, “Open it or there will be a living hell.”‘ Raju said, before the network’s X account posted the clip for Colter to reshare.
Over the course of several posts, Coulter shamed both the conservative and his left-leaning critics for complaining about smaller scandals in the past
She continued her comments on Monday by juxtaposing the conflict with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
‘Russian President Vladimir Putin calls Ukrainian leaders “terrorists,” “radicals,” and “drug-addicted neo-Nazis.” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls Iranian leaders “lunatics,” “insane” and “religious zealots.”
‘The main difference is Iran is not on our border,’ she wrote.
Coulter’s 2015 book, Adios America, helped form Trump’s hardline anti-immigration views.
