Trump slams Biden over Hamas attack saying he ‘betrayed’ Israel

Former President Donald Trump on Monday accused his successor Joe Biden of betraying one of the nation’s closest allies amid chaos and tragedy in Israel. Trump held up his own US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the Muslim travel ban as examples of why he would have handled the crisis better.

He said: “When I was Commander-in-Chief, we smashed the Iranian economy into rubble, I pulled out of the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, imposed the toughest sanctions on the regime and imposed a strict TRAVEL BAN to keep out Radical Islamic terrorists. hell outside our country.’ Trump was speaking to supporters in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire after Hamas militants crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip and attacked homes, cars and military bases, killing about 700 Israelis along with nine Americans.

Trump accused Biden of “giving” funds to Iran and said US foreign policy caused the terrorist invasion. “Joe Biden BETRAYED Israel,” Trump said, saying he would “once again stand firm on the State of Israel.” He said: “Joe Biden turned it all upside down and gave billions of dollars to the world’s leading sponsor of terror, throwing Israel over to bloodthirsty terrorists and jihadists.” Trump called it a “$6 billion ransom.”

He was referring to an agreement that provided a waiver for the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds from South Korea. The funds are now in Qatar as part of a deal that freed five Americans. The Biden administration says the funds are restricted to humanitarian purposes and that no funds have been distributed so far. Trump’s attack came after Biden spoke at the White House about the stunning attack.

“The United States stands with the state of Israel,” Biden said, saying he had spoken with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “My government’s support for Israel’s security is firm and unwavering,” he said. White House national security official John Feiner told CBS News on Monday that Iran was “broadly complicit in these attacks” but that the U.S. had not seen “any kind of direct involvement in the direct attacks that have taken place over the last two days”.

Foreign Secretary Anthony Blinken said Sunday that Hamas “would not be as close as it is without the support it has received from Iran over the years,” but also said that “we have yet to see evidence that Iran directed or was behind. this specific attack”. Trump also blamed the attack on “the perceived weakness of our country with an incompetent and corrupt leader, Joe Biden, who is laughed at around the world.” Trump joined other Republicans in hammering Biden over the new turmoil in the Middle East.

Some regional experts said Hamas may have timed the attack in part to try to derail negotiations for a planned normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Trump, in his scheduled remarks, suspended his predecessor’s moves, known as the Abraham Accords, to normalize relations between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors.

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