Michael Goodwin: 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.

“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.

Two Big Lies

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

Last year, before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous first meeting with the president and Vice President JD Vance, Murphy met with Zelensky and advised him to reject the deal Trump was offering.

Trump reacted by booting Zelensky from the White House, and temporarily withdrew his offer of help in the war against Russia.

Murphy is exceptionally strange, but he is not alone among Dems who are so consumed by anti-Trump hatred that they have lost the plot about a dangerous world.

They are so confused that most of the party’s 47 US senators have fallen for two big lies, both involving Israel.

The First Big Lie is that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and intentionally starved infants.

Never mind that Hamas started the war with its invasion, barbaric slaughter of civilians and taking 251 hostages back to the hellhole tunnels in Gaza, including some American citizens.

Or that Hamas used Gaza’s civilians as human shields, and stashed fighters and weapons in hospitals, schools, mosques and private homes.

The Second Big Lie is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoodwinked a gullible Trump into joining the war against Iran.

Never mind that Trump has been saying since his first campaign that he would do whatever was needed to stop Iran from getting nukes.

He proved he was serious in his first term with several key actions, and the current war should properly be seen as a continuation of that policy.

It’s no coincidence that both Big Lies are being perpetrated by The New York Times.

The paper is the brain and mouthpiece of the Dems, and even its biased, false reporting becomes a road map for them.

Such is the case with its claim that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza and starving children.

The lie was unmasked by the Times’ belated admission that a child it featured as an example “had pre-existing health problems.”

Similarly scandalous was its reliance on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry for the number of civilian deaths caused by Israel’s bombardment.

More recently, the Gray Lady insisted that Netanyahu used a February meeting in the White House Situation Room to beguile Trump into going to war against Iran.

Paper rails

The paper cited quotations from members of Trump’s national security team to show that most did not believe core claims of Netanyahu’s presentation, yet it said Trump was convinced.

The president rejected the Times’ conclusion, writing on Truth Social that “Israel never talked me into the war with Iran” and that “The results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”

He also blasted what he called “FAKE NEWS Pundits” who suggested otherwise.

Despite the president’s denial, the Two Big Lies are helping to lead many Democrats to drop their staunch support of the Jewish state.

Murphy was among 40 Senate Dems who voted last week against supplying Israel’s military with armored bulldozers, and 36 Dems who voted to stop supplying 1,000-pound bombs to our most loyal ally.

Both measures ultimately passed, thanks to near-unanimous support by Republicans and the votes of a handful of Dems, including Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Kirsten Gillibrand and several others.

GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida accused the Dems who voted against the package of siding “with terrorism.”

“They blocked CRITICAL arm sales to Israel that would’ve helped our allies confront terrorists who want to see both of our countries destroyed,” he wrote, adding that “Democrats will do anything to oppose President Trump, even if it means putting AMERICAN lives on the line.”

Sadly, the votes reflect a misguided realignment among many on the left.

A recent Pew poll found that 80% of Dems and Dem-leaning independents hold an unfavorable view of Israel, a jump from 69% last year and 53% in 2022.

Those huge and sudden changes are visible on Capitol Hill, as ­exemplified by the bulldozer and bomb votes.

Opposing military aid to Israel was once a fringe view, but is now more mainstream as Dems move ever closer to embracing the international left’s hatred of Israel, and the false accusations that it is both a colonial and apartheid state.

The radicals, as exemplified by Bernie Sanders, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gotham Mayor Zohran Mamdani, are among the most influential voices in the party.

Turn to radicalism

Another is Calif. Rep Ro Khanna, who said on Fox last week that “all Trump did is listen to Netanyahu — that’s his entire foreign policy. I resent the fact that Israel is going to tell the US what to do. The American president should call the shots in this country.”

The echo of an ancient hatred is unmistakable.

The midterms this year and the presidential election in 2028 are also certain to showcase the party’s turn to radicalism.

Kamala Harris, the former vice president and 2024 Dem nominee, is another who has mixed her hatred of Trump with a hatred of Israel.

“He entered a war — got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu. Let’s be clear about that — he entered a war that the American people do not want,” Harris said last week.

A growing tolerance for ­antisemitism, especially on college campuses, is both a cause and ­effect of the pols’ turn against ­Israel.

I fear the worst is yet to come.