Former President Donald Trump shares his response on his social media platform, Truth Social, after three US service members have been killed and not less than 25 others have been injured in a drone assault on an outpost in northeastern Jordan close to the Syrian border on Sunday.
“The drone assault on a US Military Installation in Jordan, killing 3 American Servicemembers, and wounding many extra, marks a horrible day for America. My most profound sympathies go to the Families of the Brave Servicemembers we now have misplaced,” Trump wrote.
He continued his first a part of a three-part sequence, asking for all Americans to affix him in praying for many who have been wounded and calling out President Joe Biden and his flawed administration.
“This brazen assault on the United States is yet one more horrific and tragic consequence of Joe Biden’s weak point and give up,” Trump continued. “Three years in the past, Iran was weak, broke, and completely below management. Thanks to my Maximum Pressure coverage, the Iranian Regime may barely scrape two {dollars} collectively to fund their terrorist proxies. Then Joe Biden got here in and gave Iran billions of {dollars}, which the Regime has used to unfold bloodshed and carnage all through the Middle East,” Trump posted.
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President Biden and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
“This assault would NEVER have occurred if I used to be President, not even an opportunity – Just just like the Iranian-backed Hamas assault on Israel would by no means have occurred, the War in Ukraine would by no means have occurred, and we’d proper now have Peace all through the World. Instead, we’re getting ready to World War 3,” Trump wrote.
In the wake of the assault, Republicans condemned Biden’s perceived inaction up to now and a few went additional, accusing the president of appeasing Iran.
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“It’s gone time for President Biden to lastly maintain the terrorist Iranian regime and their extremist proxies accountable for the assaults they’ve carried out in opposition to US and coalition forces,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, stated.
Trump echoed the remarks of different Republicans, saying today was additional proof {that a} change must be made.
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President Joe Biden speaks on the First within the Nation Celebration held by the South Carolina Democratic Party on the State Fairgrounds, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Columbia, SC (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr.) (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr.)
“This horrible day is but extra proof that we’d like an instantaneous return to PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, in order that there will likely be no extra chaos, no extra destruction, and no extra lack of treasured American lives. Our Country can not survive with Joe Biden as Commander in Chief,” Trump concluded.
This assault marked the primary time US troops have been killed by enemy hearth within the Middle East for the reason that Israel-Hamas conflict started.