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Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg is facing backlash after comments he allegedly made in a video shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg is facing backlash after comments he allegedly made in a video shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Walberg’s voice can be heard on the video making comments suggesting nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, specifically mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the two cities struck by nuclear weapons by the United States during World War II.

Walberg took to social media, saying the comment was a “metaphor” to convey “the need for Israel... to win their wars as swiftly as possible...”

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