Brett McGurk, then the U.S. envoy for the global coalition against ISIL, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, in 2017.
While McGurk most recently served in the Biden administration, he’s been part of both Republican and Democrat administrations. He previously served on former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s National Security Councils.
He also served as the special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during both the Obama administration and President Donald Trump’s first term. However, he resigned from that post in 2018 following Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, along with then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis for the same reason.
EX-CLINTON OFFICIAL APPLAUDS TRUMP’S 'COURAGEOUS' IRAN CALL, DOUBTS HARRIS WOULD'VE HAD THE NERVE
In addition to McGurk, other officials who served in Democratic administrations also weighed in to support Trump’s handling of the Iran conflict, including Jamie Metzl, who previously served as former President Bill Clinton’s director for multilateral affairs on the National Security Council.
Metzl said that while he’s been critical of Trump and voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, he doesn’t believe Harris could have pulled off the strikes against Iranian targets like Trump did.
"Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years," Metzl said in a post on X Sunday. "Its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens. Its slogan ‘death to America’ was not window dressing but core ideology. It was racing toward a nuclear weapon with every intention of using it to threaten America, our allies, and the Middle East region as a whole."
President Donald Trump slammed "fake news" outlets for downplaying the success of the U.S. strikes on Iran while talking to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on June 24, 2025. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
Trump told reporters both Israel and Iran failed to follow the terms of the agreement, which he said is still in effect.
"I’m not happy with them," Trump said at the White House Tuesday morning. 'I’m not happy with Iran either, but I’m really unhappy with Israel going out this morning."
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f--- they’re doing," he said.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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