McEnany Says Trump, Not Biden, Has ‘Moral Authority’ On Anti-Israel Protests

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany blasted President Joe Biden over his weak response to the continuing anti-Israel protests spreading by means of faculty and college campuses across the nation, including that her former boss, Donald Trump, truly has the “moral authority” on the problem.

During a section on Fox News’s “Outnumbered” program on Thursday, McEnany in contrast the previous president’s daring response to the outbreak of protests and violence to Biden’s late, tepid response, including that she didn’t need to hear any extra claims about “anti-Semitism” coming from the best.

“This is a problem of the left. Joe Biden hails from the left. He is a Democratic president. I’m sorry, but I give him no credit today. Zero credit today. I like to give Biden credit where credit’s due. Not today,” started McEnany. “So Biden speaks as we speak as a result of, politically, the second demanded it. But what did he have time to do during the last 9 days?

“Take issue with the effort of Florida to protect unborn babies. He went to the White House Correspondents Dinner. He did a campaign event in D.C. and a campaign event in Delaware. He found time for all that. He even went on Howard Stern. He found all the time in the world for that. But he couldn’t speak out about this,” she continued.

She famous additional:

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You don’t get credit score for that. And then a couple of minute into his speech, which, by the way in which, solely lasted a couple of minute or two — so, yeah, clearly not prioritizing this — a couple of minute or two to talk. He says this isn’t a second for politics. It’s a second for ethical readability. Well, it’s not a second for politics. Then why have you ever handled it so politically?

Here’s the unhappy half. The press will let him get away with this. If Donald Trump had delivered these very same remarks in the very same timeline, the White House press briefing room could be at a fever pitch…We could be requested, “Do you denounce the support from any anti-Semitic protester?” And until we denounced each younger individual within the nation, that wouldn’t be sufficient. And then we might be requested, “Will you pull their student loans?” If we didn’t reply, there could be a ferocious roar from the White House press corps.

“As Donald Trump said, Joe Biden is the moral authority for this country. Has he acted like it? No. He’s led from behind,” McEnany concluded. “The former president has been the moral authority on this issue, not the current one.”

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Kayleigh McEnany destroys Joe Biden’s tepid, half-hearted ‘response’ to the rising anti-Israel protests on faculty campuses. Rightfully declares TRUMP, not Biden, is “the moral authority” on this subject. pic.twitter.com/YLAwHBocnd

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Earlier, a White House spokesman mentioned that Biden was towards utilizing police to clear campus protesters regardless of college officers ordering them to disperse.

“We continue to believe in the freedom of speech and the right to protest policies and ideas that you want to protest,” spokesman John Kirby mentioned. “You just got to do it peacefully. You can’t hurt anybody, and you can’t in this case, like to Peter’s question, you can’t be disrupting the educational pursuit of your fellow students, and they have a right to go to school, and they have a right to do so safely.”

Trump, by comparability, has been relentless in his criticism of the protesters, a lot of whom are being influenced by outdoors skilled agitators, in response to some studies.

“New York was under siege last night,” Trump advised supporters at a marketing campaign rally in Wisconsin, praising the law enforcement officials for arresting about 300 protesters at Columbia and City College of New York who he known as “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers.”

“I say remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the radicals, and take back our campuses for all of the normal students who want a safe place from which to learn,” Trump added.

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