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The former president donald trump suggested on Friday that he thought Israel should attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in response to Iran’s launch of ballistic missiles toward Israel this week.
Trump said he disagreed with President Joe Biden’s advice to Israel to adopt a proportional response and not attack nuclear facilities.
“They asked (President Joe Biden) what he thought about Iran, would he attack Iran? And he replied: ‘As long as they don’t attack the nuclear material.’ That’s what they want to attack, right?” Trump said at a public forum held in the town of Fayetteville, a town located near a major US military base in North Carolina.
“I think he was wrong about that,” Trump added who considers that when Biden was asked that question, “the answer should have been: attack the nuclear material first and worry about the rest later.”
“It is the greatest risk we have, nuclear weapons, the power of nuclear weapons and the power of weapons,” therefore, “we have to be totally and absolutely prepared,” he stated.
Biden hopes Israel will take a measured approach that will allow it to defend its right to fight back while avoid actions that could provoke further retaliation and lead the region into a full-scale war.
Trump rallied Friday afternoon to the Fayetteville military community to itry to stop the Democratic vote in the key state of North Carolinacurrently in control of the Democrats.
The event took place after his previous visit to the neighboring state of Georgia, also decisive in the November elections. There he visited one of the areas affected by Hurricane Helen and described the White House management response as “terrible.”
Trump accused the Biden administration of divert FEMA funds to help people affected by Hurricane Helene to subsidize immigrants, an accusation that he has been repeating recently and that the White House has denied.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday that President Joe Biden had overseen the delivery of more than $45 million to those directly affected by Hurricane Helene. So far, 245,000 people have applied for financial assistance from FEMA, according to the agency.
Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for FEMA cash assistance programsaccording to the FEMA website.
Trump will repeat this Saturday the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the place where he was the target of an assassination attempt almost three months ago.
There he will give a speech on the same outdoor stage where on July 13 he was shot in the right ear while giving a rally, shot by a young sniper who was later shot dead.
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