CNN host Boris Sanchez on Monday blamed former President Donald Trump for the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, claiming the Abraham Accords the former president backed between Israel and multiple Arab states provoked Hamas.
Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel killed over 1,200 people and resulted in hundreds being kidnapped. Sanchez had attempted to deflect from former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s criticism of the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policy, which included touting Trump brokering the peace accords.
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“It’s fair to say that analysts have pointed out that that progress that was made with the Abraham Accords and the potential for Israel to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia is ultimately what led to Hamas’ attack,” Sanchez told Ramaswamy.
Trump brokered the agreements between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in 2020. The Abraham Accords also included Sudan, which was removed from the lists of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for normalizing relations with Israel.
Morocco also normalized relations with Israel during the Trump administration.
Earlier in the segment, Sanchez asked Ramaswamy about the deployment of a U.S. military missile defense unit to Israel.
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“I think that the question is the root cause of how we got to where we were in the first place is weakness in the White House,” Ramaswamy said. “You look right now, Americans wonder the same thing the rest of the world wonders when they look at the American White House, who’s really in charge? And there isn’t a clear answer to that question. And when you have that vacuum of leadership, that’s when you see Russia invading Ukraine. That’s when you see turmoil again in the Middle East, when we were on the verge of major breakthroughs on the back of the Abraham Accords under President Trump’s leadership. No look at where we are today, on the brink of a major regional war.”
Ramaswamy tied the multiple crises around the world to the “weak leadership” of the Biden-Harris administration.
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“Kamala Harris, on her own terms, does own those decisions as the proverbial last person in the room when those decisions were made. And I think a lot of these foreign policy catastrophes — yes, including the instability in the Middle East — can trace itself to that weakness of decision-making,” Ramaswamy said. “And that’s why I do think that Donald Trump, if you’re going to pick between the people who are running for U.S. president, who’s going to keep us out of World War III, I think Donald Trump is unambiguously the correct answer to that question.”
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