FACT CHECK: Joe Biden Falsely Claims That Trump Is ‘Coddling’ Terrorists Globally
Former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden made an absurdly false claim against President Trump claiming that he hasn’t been hard on terrorist, but instead has been “coddling” them.
“And then we’re gonna get to work fixing the mess that President Trump and Vice President Pence have created, both at home and abroad,” Biden claimed. “Through four years of mismanagement and coddling of terrorists and thugs around the world.”
.@JoeBiden just accused @realDonaldTrump of "coddling terrorists"
Reminder: Biden opposed the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. He also opposed the strike on Qasem Soleimani. pic.twitter.com/hUJCtj16wu
— Chris Martin (@chrisjdmartin) August 12, 2020
You have got to be kidding me!
President Trump has been harsher on terrorists than any other president before him.
Here are just a handful of terrorists that President Trump has eliminated:
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; top ISIS leader
- Qassem Soleimani; Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force commander
- Qasim al-Rimi; leader of Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula
- Abdelmalek Droukdel; head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb
- Hajji Taysir; senior ISIS leader
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis; founder of the Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades
- Abu Ali al-Janubi; ISIS’ senior media director
- Hamza Bin Laden; Al Qaeda senior leader and son of Osama bin Laden
- Abu Hasan al-Muhajir; top ISIS spokesperson
- Asim Umar; head of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs summed it up perfectly.
There isn’t enough spin in the world to claim the Trump admin has “coddled terrorists.” He relaxed the ROE so that the military cld more effectively carry out a fast-tempo campaign. And the DoD rightly placed the blame for higher civilian casualties on ISIS.
There isn’t enough spin in the world to claim the Trump admin has “coddled terrorists.” He relaxed the ROE so that the military cld more effectively carry out a fast-tempo campaign. And the DoD rightly placed the blame for higher civilian casualties on ISIS.
— Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) August 12, 2020
Then you should consider the effort that President Trump has taken against people coming in from the Southern Border and even labeled Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
If you want to truly see a president that will coddle terrorists, look no further than Joe Biden. There’s a reason why Osama bin Laden wanted him as president over Obama.
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him will automatically make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there,” Bin Laden wrote. “Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the United States into a crisis.”