Joe Biden is a corrupt demented fool who has always fancied himself a foreign policy genius. No matter how stupid his plans were, and how often they failed, he clinged to the old fart fantasy that he was a world-class Machiavel.
On Friday, Politico reported that Biden's staffers had "mixed feelings" about the Trump Team's winning of the hostages' freedom. They claim they were happy they were to be released.
But, more importantly, they were spiteful that Trump had accomplished what they failed to achieve.
And as usual, you can ignore everything before the "but."
As the world hopes for the remaining Israeli hostages to soon return home from Gaza, one group has bittersweet feelings about President DONALD TRUMP's progress toward ending the Israel-Hamas war.
Biden administration officials are thrilled that a ceasefire is taking hold and that the hostages will be freed. But they also have a bit of sour grapes -- arguing that they laid the groundwork for Trump's effort and that he could have executed on it much earlier.
Trump, some noted, took office in January with a ceasefire in place, but the truce collapsed and Trump spent months doing little as Gaza sunk into further despair.
As one Biden administration official put it, Trump "inherited a ceasefire that fell apart due to a lack of U.S. engagement, allowed Israel to implement a strategy of starvation, got dragged into the war with Iran and ultimately started to exert leverage only after the botched strike in Qatar last month." The bottom line? "It's good that he came around," the former official said. "But it's a tragedy that it took so long."
Some former aides to President JOE BIDEN are suggesting Trump's 20-point plan may be built off a blueprint they left behind, but the Trump team has made no such admission. Former Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN alluded to this in a recent podcast, saying of the much-ballyhooed Trump 20-point plan: "This is essentially the plan that we developed over many months and more or less left in a drawer for the incoming administration, and I'm very, very glad they picked it up."
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Some former Biden officials, including senior aides to the president and vice president, have been soul-searching in recent months about whether they could have done more to stop the war. But NatSec Daily didn't get any sense that the Biden administration officials were embarrassed or jealous that it was Trump and not them who finally imposed this settlement.
"'Jealous' isn't the right word," a second former Biden administration official said, adding that there's a sense that "because Trump is depraved most of the time, when he does something he's supposed to do he gets more credit than he deserves."
Politico is really claiming that this shows no signs of embarrassment or jealousy.
Deep State Operative and author of the "51 Intelligence Officials" psyop Anthony Blinken claims that Trump merely extended the ceasefire that he and Biden already achieved.
On X, Biden -- who is undergoing treatment for cancer -- said that he was "deeply grateful and relieved" that the Gaza war is approaching its end.
"The road to this deal was not easy," the Democrat wrote. "My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war."
But Biden also gave Trump credit for getting "a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line."
LOL. Biden brought the ball 90 yards to the 1-yard line and Trump merely punched it over the goal-line, huh?
"Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety," he concluded.
On Monday, Blinken said Trump's 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip was based on one developed by the Biden administration.
In a lengthy post on X, Blinken, who served in the Biden administration, outlined how Trump was able to secure the peace agreement. He noted that Arab states and Turkey have said "enough" to Hamas, and said the response also showed that other Iran-backed groups -- Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi rebels -- were not coming to Hamas' aid.
"It starts with a clear and comprehensive post-conflict plan for Gaza," Blinken wrote. "It's good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority."
Blinken said the Biden administration briefly secured a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in January, resulting in the release of 135 hostages before the deal fell apart.
He also questioned how Trump could secure a permanent peace plan.
Biden thinks he deserves credit because of his "plan" for peace. This plan for peace being, we should have a peace plan.
Wow, what a foreign policy genius.
But that's like a football coach saying that his plan for a victory is that he thinks his team should wind up with more points than the other team.
Via Ed Morrissey, the WSJ reports that Trump's plan was a touch more developed than that. Since his inauguration, Trump has begged and bullied and bought off all of Hamas' supporters, diplomatically isolating Hamas, and getting even its backers in Qatar to tell it to take this deal or else we're done with you and you're on your own.
Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting.
The next day, joined by Turkey, they warned him that if Hamas didn't approve the plan it would be stripped of all political and diplomatic cover; Qatar and Turkey would no longer host the group's political leadership, and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a say in Gaza's postwar governance, the officials said.
It was enough to get Hamas to agree to release all its hostages in Gaza and sign on to the first part of Trump's peace deal, giving up what had been its most important bargaining chip to keep a seat at the table. While modifying its acceptance with heavy caveats that reflected its concerns about the deal, Hamas had given Trump an opportunity to declare victory and set the stage for a hostage release early this week.
Trump's plan: Isolate Hamas and bully its patrons into forcing it to take the deal
Biden's "Plan:" Draw up a list of "Nice to Have" wants
Now that Trump has succeeded where Biden -- plot twist -- failed constantly, Biden thinks he's owed credit for Trump's success.
Joe Biden has praised Donald Trump for his success in negotiating a peace deal which allowed the 20 remaining Hamas survivors to return home.
But he also tried to take some credit for the monumental deal, claiming his administration had laid the groundwork for Trump to negotiate.
'The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war,' Biden said in a statement to X on Monday.
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Supporters gathered in the streets to celebrate their hostages coming home
Trump has been hailed a hero in Israel as Israelis celebrate the release of the hostages
He later addressed a peace summit with global leaders where he called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East.
'We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us,' Trump said, and he urged leaders 'to declare that our future will not be ruled by the fights of generations past.'
The whirlwind trip, which included the summit in Egypt and a speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem earlier in the day, comes at a fragile moment of hope for ending two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
'Everybody said it's not possible to do. And it's going to happen. And it is happening before your very eyes,' Trump said alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
Nearly three dozen countries, including some from Europe and the Middle East, were represented at the summit. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited but declined, with his office saying it was too close to a Jewish holiday.
Trump promised to help rebuild Gaza, and he urged Palestinians to 'turn forever from the path of terror and violence.'
'After tremendous pain and death and hardship,' he said, 'now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down.'
Israelis have little doubts about whether it is Biden and Blinken or Trump, Rubio, and Witikof who deserve credit:
Israeli lawmakers chanted Trump's name and gave him standing ovation after standing ovation. Some people in the audience wore red hats that resembled his "Make America Great Again" caps, although these versions said "Trump, The Peace President."
And Trump blasted Biden and Obama for their failures and weakness:
But Trump also took the opportunity to lay blame on former Democratic presidents for their failure to stabilize the region.
'All of the countries in the Middle East that could have what we're doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden,' Trump said.
'There was a hatred towards Israel.'
'Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak, I guarantee you that,' he added.
Even this graceless, charmless hag realized that it is self-defeating (and self-revealing) to attempt to deny credit to Team Trump:
Trump's former presidential competitor Hillary Clinton also praised the deal at the weekend.
'It's a really significant first step and I really commend Trump and his administration,' Clinton said on CBS News.
On the other hand, there's America's First Homosexual President, the graceless Kenyan Muslim Obama.
He refused to even mention Trump in noting the hostage deal. Even CNN's low-IQ shill Abby Philip thought this was petty, even by the low, base standards of the narcissistic homosexual Obama.
Trump literally laughs at the Low-IQ Narcissists Biden and the Homosexual Narcissist Obama grubbing for credit:
Israelis have no doubts about who is owed the credit:
CNN admits that Israelis are wearing MAGA caps and offering �ENDLESS applause for President Trump."
Even this ABC "News" shill gets it:
Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
ABC's James Longman on this historic day in world history:
"I think today what I've been mostly struck by is Donald Trump's sheer force of personality. There are not many men, not many leaders who can walk into the Knesset in Israel to such rapturous applause, such a warm welcome to clearly know so many members of the Israeli leadership so personally. He's been in the weeds on this and then, less than an hour later, appear in a room of world leaders, Arab and Muslim leaders and have the same kind of warm welcome. It really is his force of nature which has managed to make this happen. I mean, I was struck that he was standing on that stage here in Sharm el-Sheikh, welcoming world leader after world leader, many of whom he's had his disagreements with, as we know. And it wasn't President Sisi of Egypt doing that. It was him. He is front and center here. It's his force of will. He has said what he wants to happen. He's laid out this 20-point plan. The objectives are very clear. And of course, the big question is how we get there."
But Biden deserves credit for Trump's force of personality, huh? (As well as the very, very high-level team he's put into place.)
Even the degenerate webzine Time gets it:
The President of Pakistan praised Trump effusively not for bringing peace to Israel but for brokering the peace between the nuclear-armed enemies of Pakistan and India.
Here's a compilation of some lefties, all of whom claim they wanted a ceasefire, experiencing butthurt over Trump securing a ceasefire.
From Rita Panahi, more butthurt mixed in with some crow-eating from TDS lefties.
This low-IQ porkchop is ratchet as ever:
Overton
@overton_news
Oct 13
Truly a goosebumps moment.
President Trump closes his historic Knesset address with a vision that left the entire chamber on its feet.
Before the applause thundered through the Knesset, he gave Israel--and the world--a glimpse of what lasting peace could look like.
"So now we're going to forge a future that is worthy of our heritage. We're going to build a legacy that all the people of this region can be proud of."
"New bonds of friendship, cooperation and commerce will join Tel Aviv to Dubai, Haifa to Beirut, Jerusalem to Damascus, and from Israel to Egypt, from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, from India to Pakistan, from Indonesia to Iraq, from Syria to Bahrain, Turkey to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates to Oman and Armenia to Azerbaijan."
"Another war that I just settled."
"We are going to have hope, harmony, opportunity and happiness here in the spiritual and geographic center of the entire world. That's what you are."
"Israel, America, and all of the nations of the Middle East will soon be safer, stronger, greater, and more prosperous than ever before."
"Thank you very much. God bless you. God bless the United States of America and God bless the Middle East."
The President of the United States, speaking peace into a region once defined by endless war.
Historic.
Meanwhile, the degenerate communists of the media and Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) insist that Trump is in the grips of a Biden-like physical and mental decline...
He's literally the most energetic president since at least Teddy Roosevelt and probably long before that.
How is you all? Is you all doing well?