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Michael Goodwin: Sen. Chris Murphy is cheering for America’s enemies as Dems spew lies about Trump, Israel

Just how low can the Dems go?

If Chris Murphy is any indication, it won’t be long until the entire party is in the gutter cheering for America’s enemies.

Murphy, a Connecticut senator making noises about running for president in 2028, sounds as if he would be a better fit as Iran’s ­ayatollah.

“Awesome” was how he greeted a disputed report saying two dozen Iranian ships had broken the American blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

He later whined that he was misunderstood.

“Ok Twitter, I can’t believe I need to clarify this but obviously Trump’s bungled mismanagement of this war is not ‘awesome,’ ” Murphy posted on X.

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“As I have said a million times here, it’s a disaster and he should end the war immediately. My tweet was something called ‘sarcasm.’ ”

The claim would hold more water were it not for Murphy’s atrocious record of bashing his country at home and abroad.

Last week in Spain, he and another dopey Dem, Minnesota Gov. “Tampon” Tim Walz, joined leaders of Brazil, South Africa and other radical leftists in slamming Trump and America.

Murphy earned his supper by making the outrageous claim that under Trump, the US is facing “the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War.”

Adding fuel to his bonfire, he insisted that “we are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover, we are in the middle of it.”

No word on whether that was also sarcasm.

That was not his first foray into undercutting the president’s........

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