President Joe Biden had barely finished speaking about the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas when a reporter asked him whether he or Donald Trump, who will succeed him next week, deserved credit for the ceasefire.
Many Biden administration officials who resigned from the government to protest Biden’s support for Israel credited Trump for the end of hostilities.
Democrats and Republicans immediately jockeyed to pitch whether Biden or Donald Trump deserve the lion’s share of the credit.
Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma flatly told The Independent that Trump deserved “all of it,” in terms of credit.
He and Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota specifically cited how Trump warned Hamas that there would be “hell to pay” if the hostages weren’t released.
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