Trump’s advice to Israel over where to strike Iran sounds VERY different than Biden’s or Harris’

Acknowledging World War III could start before securing a second term in office, former President Donald Trump called out what target Israel should prioritize, “and worry about the rest later.”

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While Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Muslim leaders in Michigan, appealing to the Hamas sympathizers among them about how she would address their concerns in the Middle East, Trump was in Fayetteville, North Carolina, seeing to the needs of the hurricane-ravaged community at the tail end of four years of Biden-Harris administrative failures.

The home to Fort Bragg, renamed Fort Liberty under President Joe Biden — a point Trump promised to undo — found the GOP leader facing a number of questions centered around the military, that prompted him to encourage Israel to decimate Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

During the town hall moderated by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the president followed up a response to a question about equipping the United States with an Iron Dome by calling out his successor’s response to the Islamist regime’s latest escalation and said, “But they asked him, what do you think about, what do you think about Iran? Would you hit Iran? And he goes, as long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.”

“That’s the thing you want to hit, right? I said, I think he’s got that one wrong. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to hit? I mean, it’s the biggest risk we have,” continued Trump, “nuclear weapons, the power of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry.”

“You know, I rebuilt the entire military: jets, everything. I built it — including nuclear, and I hated to build the nuclear. But I got to know firsthand the power of that stuff, and I’ll tell you what, we have to be totally prepared,” expressed the former president. “We have to be absolutely prepared. But when they asked him that question, the answer should have been, hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later. And that’s why they should, if they’re going to do it, if they’re going to do it, they’re going to do it, but we’ll find out whatever their plans are.”

The contrasting approach to the Middle East factored prominently in the final year of Biden’s administration, particularly after Iran’s proxies had committed a terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Whereas Trump had brought the world the Abraham Accords, taking great strides towards normalized relations in the region, President Joe Biden’s move to remove his predecessor’s sanctions on Iran when he came into office had him having a change of heart.

While he joined with other global leaders in pitching sanctions on Iran, knowing full well the same sale had done little to deter Russia from invading Ukraine in 2022, Biden told the press, “We will be discussing with the Israelis what they are going to do. All seven of us (Canada, the E.U., France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K.) agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond in proportion…we are giving them advice. I will talk to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] relatively soon.”

Of import, it was the Biden-Harris administration’s insistence on following the lead of the Obama-Harris administration on the Iran Nuclear Deal, which Trump opposed, that had put the regime within two weeks of having a nuclear weapon.

Kevin Haggerty

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