{"id":93913,"date":"2026-05-26T01:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/jeh-johnson-iran-war-has-erased-whatever-moral-authority-we-had-as-leader-of-the-free-world\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:44:52","slug":"jeh-johnson-iran-war-has-erased-whatever-moral-authority-we-had-as-leader-of-the-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/jeh-johnson-iran-war-has-erased-whatever-moral-authority-we-had-as-leader-of-the-free-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeh Johnson: Iran War Has Erased &#8220;Whatever Moral Authority We Had As Leader Of The Free World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/24\/meet_the_press_roundtable_trumps_iran_deal_capitulation_may_anger_israel_gop_hawks_and_his_own_base.html\">on this week&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; panel<\/a> that the U.S. has lost &#8220;moral authority we had as leader of the free world&#8221; as a result of President Trump&#8217;s attack on Iran.   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JEH JOHNSON: I regret to say that I think that whatever moral authority we had as leader of the free world may be lost. And no deal I think can restore that. Let&#8217;s not forget that on the first day of this war, one of our missiles hit a school, killed over 100 children. Our president threatened genocide on Easter Sunday, provoking the Pope.   I fear we&#8217;ve turned 93 million Iranians against us. The so-called great Satan, gas prices globally have gone up, not just here in the United States. And we&#8217;re leading, I regret to say, by the example of our power. Not the power of our example anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/24\/jeh_johnson_iran_war_has_erased_whatever_moral_authority_the_us_had_left.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said on this week&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; panel that the U.S. has lost &#8220;moral authority we had as leader of the free world&#8221; as a result of President Trump&#8217;s attack on Iran. JEH JOHNSON: I regret to say that I think that whatever moral authority we had as leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6927,19999,125,261,3418,1198,7308,5025,4863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}