Donald Trump and other Republicans have suggested that President Joe Biden was complicit in the Hamas attack on Israel, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough knocked down their smears as false.
Republicans have linked the surprise attack to the complicated agreement Biden approved in August that allowed five detained Americans to leave Iran in exchange for $6 billion in Iranian funds that had been frozen in South Korea, but the "Morning Joe" host said that money had not been spent at all.
"I'm always opposed to unfreezing any money for the Iranians, I was opposed to the nuclear deal," Scarborough said. "We've had long conversations, battles on this program about it, and Iran is the epicenter of terrorism. They have been since 1979. At some point, the United States of America is going to figure that out, and they're going to have a consistent policy that goes from one presidency to another. I've said that, it's on the table. That's where I stand and, yet, this $6 billion argument is one of the laziest, stupidest arguments I've ever heard from a party that has been replete with lazy, stupid arguments over the past six, seven years."
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"Every time somebody brings it up, what they don't understand is, if this is a terrorist fund, it is the Trump terrorist fund," Scarborough continued. "The Trump administration saw a spike in Iranian oil revenue flooding in. Even in 2018, when he finally said, okay, they're terrorists, we're going to get out of the deal. Maybe we should. Then this money comes from a waiver, and who did he give that waiver to so they could continue flooding Iran with money? The communist Chinese government and India – by the way, Iran's two biggest trade partners when it came to oil, as well as Taiwan and, here, South Korea. So it actually was Donald Trump that funded, if this is a terrorist fund, that funded this fund, this $6 billion which comes directly from Donald Trump, who said, I'll let the Iranians continue to trade with the communist Chinese. I'll give them a waiver and India a waiver, because we wouldn't want to screw with gas prices, would we?"
"So, again, it's a lazy, stupid argument, and they don't understand that whenever they put it out there, it always goes back to Donald Trump," he concluded. "It's his $6 billion. anyway, for all the reasons that, also, there is no direct link to this money and any terrorist attacks. If there were, the ultimate responsibility would go back to Donald Trump, who funded the $6 billion with his waivers in the first place."
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