Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hammered home the severity of the attacks on Israel and the failures of the current White House after the president seemingly admitted to be “sleeping on the job.”
The Saturday morning strike from the Gaza Strip that launched thousands of rockets and a wave of militants upon civilian targets corresponded with late Friday night through the wee hours of the next morning stateside. By his own admission, President Joe Biden had not been roused to address the terrorist attacks that triggered a declaration of war by the United States “top ally in the Middle East,” and DeSantis slammed the latest example of dereliction of duty from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
“I saw the president’s comments with respect to the attacks on Israel,” the 2024 presidential candidate explained in a video speaking with the press. “He said that he was up at 7:30 in the morning, but, you know, this was happening late, late last night into the early morning and, you know, the president needs to be there answering the call when our top ally in the Middle East is under the gun.”
“You can’t be sleeping on the job,” asserted DeSantis. “You gotta get there, you gotta do it, and you gotta engage.”
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“He said that he was up at 7:30 in the morning, but this was happening late last night…The president needs to be there answering the call when our top ally in the… pic.twitter.com/jRiWAaUJH4
— DeSantis War Room (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 7, 2023
“I think that — that we need to see leadership here. We need a very clear voice, we need very strong support for the state of Israel,” he continued.
In his own remarks that hadn’t come until nearly 3 p.m. EDT, roughly 15 hours after the attacks had begun, Biden had said, “When I got up this morning and started this at 7:30, 8 o’clock — my calls.”
The president proceeded to profess, “my administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering.”
Biden responds to ‘appalling’ attacks on Israel: ‘We stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support’ https://t.co/OSQTKzxVbj via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) October 7, 2023
However, as the governor indicated, “We also have a situation where their policy in the Biden administration has been to play nice with Iran.”
In particular, DeSantis called out the $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen at the president’s direction as part of a prisoner release. While corporate media and administration officials attempted to downplay those funds as a factor in Iran’s capability to back Hamas, the conservative candidate chided disregard for the fungibility of assets.
“Of course, they’re funding Hamas and Hezbollah in big ways,” the governor said of Iran before connecting the latest tragedy to Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. “And then some of the stuff left over from Afghanistan has gotten into Hamas. So that’s a total, total disaster. So this is the equivalent, for Israel, of probably what happened to the United States on September 11th.”
“This is probably the worst attack Israel has faced since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and certainly one of the greatest attacks in the history of the modern state of Israel. So, we’re standing with ’em. It’s important that in America we all acknowledge and support their right to defend themselves,” he affirmed. “I don’t want to see resolutions from the United Nations next week attacking Israel and acting like they’re to blame.”
“These are terrorist attacks — brutal too…murdering families, children — it’s just unconscionable,” DeSantis remarked before concluding. “So we stand with Israel.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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