For Immediate Release
July 24, 2024
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
Speaker Johnson Praises Netanyahu’s Joint Address
“I thought he hit a homerun. I think he did exactly what he needed to do.”
WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson joined Fox Business’ Kudlow to discuss Prime Minister Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress, the Biden Administration’s failure to support democracy in the Middle East, and the bipartisan House task force’s plan for investigating the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
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On Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress:
I thought he hit a homerun. I think he did exactly what he needed to do. And that is project strength on the part of Israel, commit to the return of the hostages, both American and Israeli hostages, and clarify what the mission is there. We must defeat and vanquish Hamas and ultimately Iran. Iran, of course, is using proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and all the rest.
So it all has the same root of, of the problem. And, and I thought he did a very good job of tying it all together. It was a bipartisan speech. I think that’s important. The support of America for Israel has always been a bipartisan matter.
On the Biden-Harris Administration’s refusal to support Israel:
I was rather shocked that Kamala Harris chose to boycott the speech today. She should have been sitting next to me up there. It’s pretty shameful, and I think she’ll have to answer for that… We’ve been encouraging the White House all along to be more forceful to project strength, to make clear that we’re not equivocating between Israel and Iran at multiple points along the way. They have appeased the wrong party.
The Biden-Harris Administration has appeased Iran, which is the source of the problem. And they have questioned Israel. They have withheld weapons deliveries at certain times. I mean, it’s really been a problem. And so we’ve got to project peace through strength. We maintain peace through strength. We’ve got to project strength to do that, and we need a strong Commander in Chief who has that resolved. I think what Bibi did in the room today in the Chamber was very important. And I think we got Democrats in the room to applaud at the right spots. But many of them sat through some of those comments, and that’s a, that’s a real concern.
On the attempted assassination of former President Trump:
Inconceivable is the right word. We’re all scratching our heads trying to figure out how in the world such mistakes could have happened. I don’t think there was a big conspiracy. I just think it was utter incompetence at the highest levels. And the stakes are so high, and it’s so dangerous. We have to get down to the bottom of it.
We have to ensure that the Secret Service can do its job and its primary mission to protect our officials, presidents, former presidents, and high executives in the government. It’s a simple mission. It’s an important one. It’s a complex one, but we need people in place who can handle that. On the night of the assassination, the failed assassination attempt, within probably six hours of the event, I was on the phone with Secretary Mayorkas at DHS. The buck stops at his desk. And I ask him very simple questions like the one you’re asking. I asked, were there drones? Did we employ drones in the area? He couldn’t answer the question. It doesn’t appear that happened. There were lots of lapses, and I think the information’s going to be alarming, but it has to get out there.
They have a deadline for a final report in early December, but we expect interim reports along the way as they uncover the information. The objective will be to get it out as quickly as possible. We’re going to have serious people doing serious work, and I’m confident they’ll be able to get that done.###