In a very entertaining incident that developed online, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who served in that position under former President Joe Biden, tried claiming that he and others in the Biden Administration had “developed” the plan that led to the recent peace deal between Hamas and Israel that President Trump brokered. Team Trump officials skewered Blinken over the claim.
As background, President Trump announced that after long, grinding years of warfare, the conflict sparked by the October 7 raid on Israel by Hamas would be coming to an end, with the hostages returned and the fighting over, at least for now. It was a major accomplishment of the Trump Administration, and so the Biden cronies swiftly swooped in to try to garner some of the credit.
Leading that charge was Blinken, who posted a lengthy thread on X in which he claimed, toward the beginning of it, He said, in that post, “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. It centers on temporary, transitional authorities for Gaza’s governance, security, humanitarian assistance, and rebuilding, led by Arab and international partners alongside Palestinians, backed by the United States, and ultimately handed over to full Palestinian control.”
Predictably, that led to him getting skewered by President Trump and his allies. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), for instance, snapped, “What an absolute joke! @ABlinken was the worst Secretary of State we’ve ever had and oversaw one foreign policy disaster after the next! From the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan to the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the terrorist attacks against Israel. A complete failure.”
Similarly, pro-Trump journalist Miranda Devine snapped that Blinken was “pathetic” and had done a horrible job, saying, “How pathetic, from this inept failure as Secretary of State, who only got the job because he sucked up to Joe Biden for years and did favors for his crackhead son.”
Concintuing, Devine called out Blinken by saying, “This is the ineffectual toady who sat mute as Chinese officials yelled at him and disrespected America, who covered up his boss’s obvious cognitive decline, who simped with Europeans in the hope they would accept him as one of them, who presided over the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, who helped his boss make every conflict in the world worse, who installed his childhood friend from their Parisian school, Robert Malley, as “Iran special envoy” only to see the guy stripped of his security clearance, suspended, and investigated for “mishandling” classified information — a mystery which still has not been explained. So, sure, try to take credit for what Trump achieved in eight months after your four years of humiliation on the world stage. No one buys it.”
Similarly, Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports argued that former Secretary of State Blinken’s claim was one of the dumber things ever posted on X, and should be remembered and consulted as such, saying, “If you’re ever afraid you’ve said something stupid… just bookmark this and refer to it.”
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Even President Trump chimed in, saying that Blinken is a “joke” and everyone knows it, given his litany of horrendous failures as the former secretary of state, saying, “Everybody knows that’s a joke. They did such a bad job. This should’ve never happened… Everything they did was the opposite of what you should’ve done.”
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