'I was President': Trump's response to Iranian missile attack puts the focus on himself

Donald Trump responded to the worsening crisis in the Middle East with a lengthy comment about himself minutes before Iran launched missiles into Israel.

The former president's campaign issued a statement Tuesday that he shared on Truth Social blaming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the ballistic missile attack, which U.S. officials had warned was imminent, and insisted that his Democratic rivals were responsible for Israel's war in Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon.

"The World is on fire and spiraling out of control," the statement read before a lengthy attack on Harris' record as a prosecutor and attorney general in California.

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"When I was President, Iran was in total check," the statement continued. "They were starved for cash, fully contained, and desperate to make a deal. Kamala flooded them with American cash and, ever since, they've been exporting terror all over, and unraveling the Middle East."

The GOP presidential nominee argued that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if he had been president and accused his Democratic rivals of "leading us to the brink of World War III."

"You wouldn't trust Joe or Kamala to run a lemonade stand," the statement read, "let alone the Free World."

Trump followed up the campaign statement with a post of his own after the missile attack was launched.

"Look at the World today — Look at the missiles flying right now in the Middle East, look at what’s happening with Russia/Ukraine, look at Inflation destroying the World," he posted. "NONE OF THIS HAPPENED WHILE I WAS PRESIDENT!"