Former President Donald Trump accused the Biden administration of negligence ahead of Iran’s ballistic-missile attack on Tuesday.
In a statement issued shortly before Iran fired more than 180 missiles at the Jewish state, Trump said that US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were “nonexistent” and “completely absent,” respectively.
“The world is on fire and spiraling out of control. We have no leadership, no one running the country,” Trump stated. “No one is in charge, and it’s not even clear who is more confused: Biden or Kamala. Neither has any idea what is even going on.
“When I was president, Iran was in total check,” he added. “They were starved for cash, fully contained and desperate to make a deal. Kamala flooded them with American cash and, ever since, they’ve been exporting terror all over and unraveling the Middle East.”
Biden and Harris monitored the attack from the White House situation room, where the president ordered the US military to assist Israel in shooting down Iranian missiles, the White House press pool reported.
Shortly after the attack, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that the Iranian missile attack was “preventable” and that it would not have happened if he were president.
He also posted a campaign ad accusing Biden and Harris of “weakness” in foreign affairs with America’s adversaries.
“Hamas saw Harris’s anti-Israel statements and will use it as a green light to keep murdering Israelis,” the ad’s narrator says. “And Iran thinks Harris is so incompetent, new intel shows they’re trying to help Harris win the election.”
The US Department of Justice charged three Iranians on Friday with hacking Trump campaign email accounts. The contents of the hack included an internal opposition research file on Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.
On Sept. 24, the Trump campaign stated that the former president was briefed by US intelligence officials on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him.” Iran is not known to have any connection to the two assassination attempts on Trump in the past year.
With reporting by JNS.
