A report published earlier this week that Iran’s nuclear program had been set back by just a few months after U.S. strikes and was not “completely and fully obliterated” is from “people trying to take credit away from what [President Donald] Trump did this weekend,” said Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.

The U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities “was a very limited surgical strike that took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities and then, of course, pivoted to peace,” Schmitt told Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Show.”

“So, the people suffering from Trump Derangement syndrome and rooting against America — they’ll find any way to sort of discredit that,” he added.

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