President Joe Biden sought to get stalled funding for Ukraine moving again by tying it to aid for Israel in a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on Thursday night.
In an address that came shortly after his return from Israel, Biden’s cynical speech was clearly more about getting more money into the hands of greedy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy than it was for the Jewish state after a sneak terrorist attack in which over 1,300 civilians – including children – were massacred by Islamist savages.
“You know, the assault on Israel echoes nearly 20 months of war, tragedy, and brutality inflicted on the people of Ukraine — people that were very badly hurt since Putin launched his all-out invasion,” Biden told the nation, falsely linking the two in perhaps the most cynical move of his disastrous presidency.
Biden says “The assault on Israel echoes nearly 20 months of war inflicted on the people of Ukraine, people really badly hurt, since Putin launched his all out invasion” before asking Congress for aid for both countries. pic.twitter.com/JWnxiGvK6f
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 20, 2023
“That’s why, tomorrow, I’m going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security needs, to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine,” he later said after much harping about Putin.
One person who was greatly impressed by Biden’s speech was Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume who gushed over the address, saying that it was perhaps the greatest speech of the deeply unpopular leader’s presidency.
(Video: Fox News)
During the conservative network’s coverage of the speech, anchor Bret Baier asked the network’s chief political analyst for his take in which he slobbered all over Biden for his bait and switch on the American people.
“I think it may be remembered as one of the best, if not the best, speeches of his presidency. He was firm, he was unequivocal, he was strong, as he has been particularly in recent days before he went to Israel and while he was over there,” Hume said.
“I was struck by the fact that he spent as much time as he did on Ukraine and I think it was a good thing that he did because the aid for Ukraine package that he’s talking about, and further aid to Ukraine beyond that, is in jeopardy,” he continued.
“And I think that he was hampered a little bit in that effort by the fact that he dare not really mention the best reason— I mean, he mentioned broadly speaking the best reason for sticking with it in Ukraine, which is, ‘What would the rest of the world and its evildoers think if we pulled out of there?’ because that comes on the heels of his having pulled out of Afghanistan, which arguably emboldened all the… all of our adversaries around the world, particularly Vladimir Putin,” Hume said.
Others were quick to call out Biden’s trickery.
“What Biden is doing is disgusting. He’s using dead children in Israel to sell his disastrous Ukraine policy to skeptical Americans,” wrote Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) on X, formerly Twitter, after the speech.
What Biden is doing is disgusting. He’s using dead children in Israel to sell his disastrous Ukraine policy to skeptical Americans.
They are not the same countries, they are not the same problems, and this effort to use Israel for political cover is offensive.
Hell no.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) October 20, 2023
“They are not the same countries, they are not the same problems, and this effort to use Israel for political cover is offensive,” he added. “Hell no.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisc.) said that Israel and Ukraine were completely separate issues and should be treated as such by Congress.
“Joe Biden wants to force Congress to tie Ukraine and Israel aid together,” the GOP lawmaker tweeted. “These are two separate issues, and they should be two separate votes.”
Joe Biden wants to force Congress to tie Ukraine and Israel aid together.
These are two separate issues, and they should be two separate votes.
— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) October 20, 2023
“American hostages must feel so much better knowing Biden spent all night talking about sending more money to Ukraine,” said Hume’s Fox colleague Jimmy Failla.
American hostages must feel so much better knowing Biden spent all night talking about sending more money to Ukraine. ♂️
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) October 20, 2023
More reactions to Biden’s big con:
American citizens are being held hostage by Hamas terrorists and the top mention in Biden’s primetime address was “Ukraine” pic.twitter.com/PtyB9BWUjZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 20, 2023
Biden spent more time in his speech talking about giving more money to Ukraine than he did about Israel and spent more time equating anti-Semitism to Islamophobia as if “kill more jews” rallies haven’t been occurring in cities and college campuses all over America.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 20, 2023
Biden gives a speech about problems he helped create through weakness, which Russia saw and invaded Ukraine. The catastrophic, humiliating departure from Afghanistan. His enabling of Iran, which continues today, is why Israel is under attack and the Middle East is at the brink.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 20, 2023
This Joe Biden speech is really more about Ukraine than Israel. He’s using Israel to get more funding for Ukraine because there’s considerably more support for Israel in this country.
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) October 20, 2023
If this Ukraine story were so important Biden would’ve given this speech a year ago. This is opportunism – a Democrat President exploit justified outrage over the attack on Israel for something he actually cares about (and probably gets a piece of). What a jackass.
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) October 20, 2023
This Biden speech feels like a shell game, where Ukraine money is the red ball, and everything else is a distraction.
— @Matthew Betley (@MatthewBetley) October 20, 2023
“American leadership is what holds the world together. Our alliances are what keep us safe. And our values are what make us a partner that other nations want to work with,” Biden added in a post to X on Thursday night. “We put all of that at risk if we walk away from Ukraine or turn our back on Israel.”
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