Talk radio host Laura Ingraham slams Trump Afghan plan

One of President Trump’s most vocal supporters in conservative media ripped his newly unveiled strategy for the war in Afghanistan on Monday, arguing that it continues an unsuccessful policy.

Radio host Laura Ingraham asked Monday night what Trump’s “measure of success” for the war in the country would be in response to praise tweeted by Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, questioning how adding 4,000 troops to the roughly 8,000 soldiers in the country already would change the war.

{mosads}”Who’s going to pay for it? What is our measure of success? We didn’t win with 100K troops. How will we win with 4,000 more?” she asked.

Who’s going to pay for it? What is our measure of success? We didn’t win with 100K troops. How will we win with 4,000 more? https://t.co/XHj9GpJzaZ

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 22, 2017

In a second tweet posted Tuesday morning, she added that Trump had broken his promise to “drain the swamp,” arguing that we were now going to “clear the desert in Afghanistan” instead.

“I thought we were going to drain the swamp in Washington, not clear the desert in Afghanistan,” Ingraham tweeted.

I thought we were going to drain the swamp in Washington, not clear the desert in Afghanistan. https://t.co/gQFnQjoj0n

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 22, 2017

Ingraham is a longtime supporter of the president and had been seen as a potential contender for press secretary. She attended a meeting with other conservative media personalities in April at the White House, during which she and others pressed Trump to follow through on his promises.

In January, she also hinted that she was considering a Senate run against Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who ran for vice president on Hillary Clinton’s ticket in 2016.

“I’m considering,” Ingraham said in January. “I haven’t made any decisions, but a number of folks in Virginia who are well-connected are very interested in my running, and that’s very flattering.”