On Sunday, the day after the horrific and unprovoked terrorist attacks by Hamas against the state of Israel, the Biden administration’s surrogates in the media have begun circling the wagons around the president and pretending that the $6 billion he provided Iran didn’t embolden Hamas’s rein of terror. The latest evidence of this came during NBC’s Meet the Press when moderator Kristen Welker argued with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley over whether the billions the U.S. gave to Iran had anything to do with Saturday’s attacks.
“Yesterday almost all of your Republican rivals blamed the Biden administration for this attack,” Welker huffed. “You just saw the Secretary of State effectively say there is no link between that deal and the horrific attacks that unfolded yesterday,” she added before asking the leading question: “Do you think it was irresponsible of your rivals to level that allegation without any evidence or proof?”
Haley responded by turning the “irresponsible” allegation around on Blinken and the Biden administration: “I actually think it was irresponsible for Secretary Blinken to say that the $6 billion doesn’t weigh in here. I mean, let’s be honest with the American people and understand that Hamas knows and Iran knows they’re moving money around as we speak because they know $6 billion is gonna be released.”
“They go and spread terrorism every time they get a dollar. It doesn’t go to the Iranian people, it does go to terrorist attacks and Secretary Blinken’s just wrong to imply that this money is not being moved around as we speak to hurt those who love freedom,” Haley added.
Welker bitterly interjected: “There’s just no proof of that yet. This was just the hours after that immediate attack. Is it irresponsible to level that charge when you really don’t have any evidence of that at this point in time?”
“To think that they’re not moving money around is irresponsible to say that to the American people. They are moving money around to threaten those they hate,” Haley responded.
“They hate Israel. They hate America. They are going to continue to use this. It was wrong to release the $6 billion.”
After that, Welker decided to move on to another topic.
The transcript is below:
NBC’s Meet the Press
10/8/2023
10:23:38 a.m. EasternKRISTEN WELKER: Yesterday almost all of your Republican rivals blamed the Biden administration for this attack as I just discussed with the secretary citing the deal they made with Iran. You just saw the Secretary of State effectively say there is no link between that deal and the horrific attacks that unfolded yesterday. Do you think it was irresponsible of your rivals to level that allegation without any evidence or proof?
NIKKI HALEY: I actually think it was irresponsible for Secretary Blinken to say that the $6 billion doesn’t weigh in here. I mean, let’s be honest with the American people and understand that Hamas knows and Iran knows they’re moving money around as we speak because they know $6 billion is gonna be released. That’s the reality. When I was at the United Nations you saw that when those planes full of cash sent by Obama to Iran, I went to the International Atomic Energy Agency, I met with them. What happened was those funds were sent to Hezbollah and Lebanon. They were sent to Hamas and Gaza. They were sent to the Houthis and Yemen. They go and spread terrorism every time they get a dollar. It doesn’t go to the Iranian people, it does go to terrorist attacks and Secretary Blinken’s just wrong to imply that this money is not being moved around as we speak to hurt those who love freedom.
WELKER: Ambassador there’s just no proof of that yet. This was just the hours after that immediate attack. Is it irresponsible to level that charge when you really don’t have any evidence of that at this point in time?
HALEY: The evidence is look at what the Iranian people have done to freedom-loving people around the world. Look at what the Iranian people, the Iranian regime has done to threaten Israel over the years, to think that they’re not moving money around is irresponsible to say that to the American people. They are moving money around to threaten those they hate. They hate Israel. They hate America. They are going to continue to use this. It was wrong to release the $6 billion, but let me tell you what else was wrong. It was wrong to go and have that debacle in Afghanistan. It was wrong to waive sanctions on Iran that gave them even more money. Money has been flowing to Iran and that is the problem because when Iran gets money they use it for hate.
