Former President Donald Trump is being praised for successfully predicting the terror attack on Israel nearly a month before it happened.
On Sept. 11th, the day President Joe Biden unfroze $6 billion in Iranian assets, the former president posted to Truth Social warning that the unprecedented cash flow to Iran would backfire.
“Can you believe that Crooked Joe Biden is giving $6 Billion to the terrorist regime in Iran? That money [will] be used for terrorism all over the Middle East, and, indeed, the World. This incompetent FOOL is absolutely destroying America. He had the audacity to announce this terrible deal today, September 11th,” he wrote.
“To pay for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail against Americans across the globe. I freed many dozens of our people from various unfriendly countries and never paid a dime!” he added.
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The president’s supporters — and even some of his critics — say this common-sense thinking is what separates him from Biden, a far-leftist who they argue lives in a fantasy world of unicorns and rainbows.
Indeed, they say it’s this naïve thinking that led the current president to rescind Trump-era sanctions against Iran and try to renegotiate the Obama-era nuclear deal after assuming office in 2021.
“The Biden administration on Thursday rescinded former President Donald Trump’s restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran, an announcement that could help Washington move toward rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program,” Voice of America reported on Feb. 18th, 2021, just weeks after Biden’s inauguration.
His decision-making at the time prompted an outpouring of criticism, with voices like Trump-era administration official Boris Epshteyn warning of the consequences.
“By removing sanctions on Iran and taking former Iranian officials off of the blacklist, Joe Biden and his team have pandered to Tehran, wasting the crucial diplomatic leverage they inherited from President Trump. Empowering Iran with billions of dollars in sanctions relief will not help the beleaguered Iranian people who have suffered at the hands of a murderous regime,” Epshteyn wrote at the time for Newsweek.
“Biden’s incompetence is likely to prove extremely dangerous. An emboldened Iran can endanger not only our nation’s security and that of our troops in the Middle East, but also that of our allies. As the predominant state sponsor of terrorism in the world, Iranian aggression can have dire effects on Israel, our greatest ally in the region,” he added.
Dovetailing back to Trump’s Truth Social post from September, his supporters say this is just yet another example of him being right and Biden being wrong:
We need to get this man back in the oval office
— Damien Harris ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ່࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘ (@LuckyMan9406) October 7, 2023
Trump was right about everything and we need him back at the Oval Office more than ever.
— Max (@Maxsantana86) October 7, 2023
Absolutely he was right! Has been throughout it all… Funny how others laughed at him and continue to do so.
I’ll laugh in 2024 at them.— Isaac Sotero (@isotero_) October 7, 2023
Now you know why there are towns in Israel named after Trump. This stuff wouldn’t happen under him, as Trump doesn’t want Hamas children used as human shields, and he focused on targeted assassination of Hamas terrorists. He wasn’t spying on domestic enemies, like Biden regime.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 7, 2023
— Victoria Vic #Z28310 (@Victori41100130) October 7, 2023
Trump has since released a statement responding to the terror attack against Iran.
“These Hamas attacks are a disgrace and Israel has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force. Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration,” the statement reads.
“We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again,” it continues.
The current president’s defenders for their part argue the $6 billion to Iran isn’t to blame because the dispersion of money is being tightly “controlled” by the United States, but critics note that, one, money is fungible, and two, Iran is demonstrably faring much better these days than it did when Trump was in office:
It doesn’t matter if those exact funds were directly used in the terror attacks because money is fungible, meaning that the $6 billion will be used for other activities and the money that Iran is currently using for those other activities can be redirected for terrorist activity. https://t.co/auteyUreOy
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 8, 2023
Let’s be clearer still: Since Biden took office Iran’s accessible foreign exchange reserves went from <$6B (same as Haiti!) to $70B+, & from selling <400k barrels of oil per day at <$55/ barrel to over 3M barrels per day at $85 per barrel. Anyone arguing this doesn’t support… https://t.co/eWKZsT5HJH
— Robert Greenway (@RC_Greenway) October 7, 2023
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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