Despite his aw-shucks kindly grandfather reputation, it’s hardly a secret that Joe is arrogant, touchy, and thirsty for the approval of others.
Exactly the opposite of the ‘Soul of America’ reputation he tried to cultivate for himself. They guy struggled to fill in executive orders he wrote in the last few days calling for his aides to ‘fill in the dates’ for him.
Sloppy.
Here is Joe Biden with his characteristic [expletive-eating] grin showing that he thinks that he deserves 100% of the credit and applause for this deal to be signed less than a week before Trump took over, with an ominous ultimatum hanging over Gaza’s head if they fail to work out a plan for setting American hostages free.
On the very same day, at the State Department press conference on the hostage release deal, that same question was asked and answered by people who actually knew what was going on. Key text was highlighted and put in bold:
QUESTION: — the Trump administration’s involvement in this. Why?
MR MILLER: Let me say a few things first before I get to the specific question of why we have welcomed their support. The first is that this ceasefire agreement is an agreement that was conceived of by this administration, that this administration traveled the world to garner support for, and that members from Secretary Blinken on down put their credibility behind.
There are a number of things I think that went into getting here today, but if you look at the most important, there are maybe two important – two really important factors before I get to the question about President-elect Trump’s involvement.
I think the most important factor was that after the President laid out this proposal publicly at the end of May, Secretary Blinken and other members of the United States Government went around the world generating support for this proposal and won the endorsement of not just countries in Europe but countries across the Middle East, Arab and Muslim countries across the Middle East, that said they supported this proposal. It won the endorsement of the United Nations Security Council and what that did is it left Hamas isolated and alone. And I can tell you that we began to see a weakening of Hamas’s position after that diplomatic campaign that we executed.
The other thing that I think was critical to getting us here today is Hamas finally realized that the broader regional war that they had been hoping to achieve since October 7th – the broader regional war that was part of their original strategic effort – that they weren’t going to get that; that their allies in Hizballah were weakened and decimated; that Iran was not going to come to their aid, was not going to launch a full regional war and that was, to some extent, because of the work that the United States did to prevent that from happening; and that the fall of Syria showed that one of their last allies was – the fall of the Syrian regime, I should say – that one of their last allies was erased from the map.
So I think you add those things together. You had in Hamas first a terrorist organization that was isolated and then it eventually left realizing that it really had no choice but to accept a ceasefire because the strategic goal that they wanted to achieve for so long just wasn’t going to happen.
Now, when it comes to the involvement of President-elect Trump’s team, it has been absolutely critical in getting this deal over the line. And it’s been critical because, obviously, as I stand here today, this administration’s term in office will expire in five days, and one of the things that we have always said about this deal is that when you get from stage one to stage two, that the United States, Egypt, and Qatar are the guarantors of this deal and Egypt and Qatar will push Hamas to stay at the bargaining table and to get from stage one to stage two and the United States will push Israel to stay at the bargaining table to get from phase one and phase two. So obviously those are promises we cannot make on behalf of the United States for any longer than the next five days. And so it’s critical that all of the parties to the agreement and the other mediators see that when the United States is in the room making commitments, those are lasting commitments that extend beyond this administration into the next one.
I – let me – I will just say lastly I don’t know if it’s unprecedented to have envoys from an outgoing and an incoming administration sitting at the same table negotiating a ceasefire agreement of this kind, but if it’s not unprecedented, it’s certainly unusual, and we of course thank the Trump team for working with this, on this ceasefire agreement. We think it’s important that they were at the table and I think it shows that when Americans are worked – are willing to work together across partisan lines as we were willing to do on this occasion because it’s in the national interests of the United States, there’s a lot that we can get done.
Joe might want to be careful flashing that grin 5 days before leaving office. Because this fact pattern of hostages being released by an Iranian-backed regime just days before a Republican threatening hellfire and damnation against his adversaries if the hostages aren’t released by Day One of his presidency bears a strong resemblance to the transfer of power marking the end of the (previous) worst US President in modern history and the rise of Ranaldus Magnus.
Historians might just pick up on that similarity, much like they picked up on other similarities between Joe’s failings and previous Presidential face-plants… up to and including images of the Fall of Saigon.
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