Hours before the Vice Presidential debate, Former President Donald Trump Addressed the crowd at his campaign rally in Wisconsin and criticized the Biden administration over Iran’s historic attack on Israel.
“A short time ago, Iran launched 181 ballistic missiles at Israel… I have been talking about World War III for a long time, and I don’t want to make predictions because predictions always come true. We are not (predictions )…but they’re very close to global disaster,” Trump said. “We have a non-existent president and a non-existent vice president who should be in charge, but no one knows what. It’s happening.”
Trump’s comments came after Israel said Iran fired 181 ballistic missiles at the country, the largest ballistic missile attack in history.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the attack was in retaliation for the killing. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon, last weekend and in Tehran in July, according to Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.
Iran attack on Israel ‘ineffective’ but ‘significant escalation’: White House
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump listens at a town hall campaign event at Macomb Community College on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Warren, Michigan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned in a statement carried by Iranian state media that if Israel responded to the missile attack, “it would face crushing attacks.”
Trump accused President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of weak leadership on the world stage.
Trump said, “That’s why Israel was attacked a while ago. Because they no longer respect our country. The so-called enemy no longer respects our country.”
Iran fired several missiles at Israel
Trump attacked President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after Iran launched a massive ballistic missile attack on Israel. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump claimed that Biden and Harris made Iran rich in a very short time.
“They have $300 billion now. They’re rich. I mean, every time they have someone kidnapped they pay $6 billion, it’s always $6 billion,” Trump said.
,Iran was on the verge of bankruptcy. He had no money left. He had no money for Hamas. They had no money for Hezbollah. The people they are fighting with now will be ready to make any compromise. You could have made any deal. But Kamala filled them with American cash and everything. Now, I mean, they’re filling them with cash. “It’s not even believable, to be honest,” Trump added.
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Traces of firearms fired in the air in celebration of Iran’s missile bombardment of Israel are seen in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 1, 2024. (Reuters/Louisa Gouliamaki)
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Iranian missile attack on Israel was “defeated and ineffective” and the US military coordinated with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to thwart the attacks.
“US naval destroyers joined Israeli air defense units in firing interceptors to shoot down incoming missiles. President Biden and Vice President Harris monitored the attack and response from the White House Situation Room, in person and remotely from their joined together national security Team,” Sullivan said.
Speaking at a White House briefing on Tuesday, Sullivan called the attack a “significant escalation.”
Sullivan said there were no deaths reported from the Israeli side, although the White House was monitoring the reported death of a Palestinian civilian in Jericho, in the West Bank.
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“We are not aware of any damage to aircraft or strategic military assets in Israel. In short, based on what we know at this point, this attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. The term fog of war was invented to describe such The situation was made for this. It’s a fluid situation,” he said.
Many of the missiles were intercepted by Israel’s missile defense systems, while others fell to the ground.
The Pentagon says the US fired about 12 interceptors against Iranian missiles.
Fox News’s Michael Dorgan, Stephen Soares, Liz Frieden, Nicholas Rojas, Greg Norman and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
