WASHINGTON, DC (News First) – Congressman Jason Smith, representing Missouri’s Eighth Congressional District, is vowing support to Donald Trump’s second presidential campaign. In a news release on Friday (Oct 4th), Smith discusses the tension in the Middle East and how things were calm when Trump was president from 2016 to 2020.
Smith says on October 1st, the entire population of Israel was urged to seek safety in bomb shelters from nearly 200 ballistic missiles that were launched from Iran. The strike came after two terrorists carried out a shooting and stabbing attack that killed seven innocent people and injured eight others in Tel Aviv, Israel. One of the victims was a mother who was protecting her nine-year-old child from gunfire.
Although Israel was able to intercept the majority of the missiles, it’s been under attack from Hezbollah, Hamas, and Houthi rebels for a year. Smith says these attacks wouldn’t be happening if Trump was still president because his support for Israel was “ironclad.”
Smith says the Biden-Harris administration is responsible for the attacks after they unfroze $6 billion that was held in Qatar and made it available to Iran, and allowed the United Nation’s missile and long-range drone embargo on Iran to lapse. Smith adds that Iran has made roughly $100 billion through global oil sales following Biden and Harris reversing Trump’s economy-crippling sanctions on Iran.
Smith blames the current administration for failing to secure legislation to counter Iran and vows, to “I will “continue fighting to ensure the U.S. provides Israel – our greatest ally – the resources it needs to defend itself from Iran and its terror proxies. I will also continue working to bring back Trump’s incredibly successful maximum-pressure campaign against the Iranian regime – the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
