2020 Biden on Trump: “As the Walls Close in on This Man, I’m Worried That He’s Going to Get Us to War in Iran” (VIDEO)

A video of Biden from early 2020 claiming Trump will get us to war in Iran was making the rounds this weekend after Iran began drone strikes on Israel.

According to reports, more than 300 drone and missile strikes bombarded Israel on Saturday.

Israel’s Iron Dome intercepted the air attack.

Iran made its move against Israel on Saturday – not while Trump is president – but because the US is compromised by a feeble Joe Biden.

The Biden Regime has also funded Iran’s terrorism.

This would never have happened under President Trump – it didn’t happen under President Trump.

Joe Biden briefly made his way back to the White House on Saturday. He called a lid and refused to speak to the press.

Four years ago Joe Biden claimed Trump would get us to war in Iran.

“As the walls close in on this man, I’m worried that he’s going to get us to war in Iran,” Biden said.

Notice how Biden was able to speak more clearly four years ago.

WATCH:

2020. Biden on Trump – “As the walls close in on this man, I’m worried that he’s going to get us to war in Iran.” pic.twitter.com/HpSpQ9yBSg

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 13, 2024

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National Phenom Caitlin Clark CRUSHES IT Last Night on SNL – VIDEO

Women’s basketball sensation Caitlin Clark from Iowa made an appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend before the WNBA draft this coming week.

University of Iowa basketball sensation Caitlin Clark capped off a record-setting two weeks with an appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

The Iowa women drew in a record 18.87 million viewers in their NCAA final game against the South Carolina last Sunday afternoon.

Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes had 4 million more viewers than the men’s final on Monday night.

Caitlin Clark and her Iowa teammates were involved in the four most-viewed games in women’s college basketball history.

The Caitlin Clark effect:
** 2023 NCAA Championship with Iowa vs. LSU — 9.9 million viewers.
** April 1 2024 NCAA quarterfinal game with Iowa vs. reigning champions LSU — 12.3 million viewers
** April 5, 2024 NCAA semifinal with Iowa vs. UConn Huskies – 14.2 million viewers (Almost topping the men’s final game)
** April 7, 2024 NCAA final with Iowa vs. UC – 18.87 million viewers almost doubling the previous year’s record!

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark broke every record imaginable this year in women’s AND men’s basketball.

• D-I scoring leader (3,951 pts)
• only D-I player w/ 3,500 pts, 1,000 ast & 850 reb in a career
• most pts in single season in D-I WBB (1,234)
• most 3pt in single season in D-I hist (201)
• most pts (491), ast (152), 3pt (78) in NCAAT in career
• only player w/ 40 pts, 10 ast in NCAAT gm (she has 2)
• only player w/ 30+ pt trip-dbl in NCAAT
• only D-I player to led CBB in pts & ast in single season 2x
• B1G all-time ast leader (1,144)
• only player w/ > 3 career 25+ pt trip-dbl (she has 10)

Caitlin Clark also brought excitement to the game of women’s basketball – something unimaginable before she entered college.

Look at how Caitlin compared to the rest of the women’s league in her performance.
(Open the tweet to see the little green mark in the upper right-hand corner of the chart. The chart helps explain the excitement surrounding Clark.)

Dorktown: Caitlin Clark! pic.twitter.com/fN5S1f4D1x

— Secret Base (@secretbase) April 8, 2024

Clark and her Iowa teammates sold out every home game and sold out or set attendance records at nearly every major venue they played at all season.

Despite Caitlin Clark’s enormous success and the record interest in women’s basketball for the first time EVER — the old stars of yesteryear showed nothing but jealousy and disgust for Caitlin this year.

But they can’t stop Caitlin’s appeal.

Last night Saturday Night Live invited Caitlin Clark on – And she was sensational!

Caitlin Clark CRUSHED it on SNL last night pic.twitter.com/HNd5BWfupC

— Barstool Iowa (@BarstoolUIowa) April 14, 2024

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US Calls to Convene G7 for a United Response Against Iran

In the aftermath of Iran’s attack on Israel Saturday night, President Joe Biden said he will meet with allies on Sunday to consider what to do.

Biden said he will meet with G7 nations to craft a unified response, according to Reuters.

Biden said that during a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks — sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.”

“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he said. The G7 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Great Britain.

On Saturday, Israel said Iran sent 170 drones, more than 30 cruise missiles and more than 120 ballistic missiles towards Israel, according to the Independent. Almost all of the weapons were intercepted before they reached Israel.

On Sunday, John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, avoiding escalation is uppermost in Biden’s mind.

“Every decision, every discussion that he’s had is all designed to not let this become a broad regional war, and that’s where his head still is,” Kirby said on Fox News, The New York Times reported.

Israel’s War Cabinet is meeting Sunday afternoon to craft Israel’s response.

Some experts said they do not believe Iran wants escalation.

“Iran’s government appears to have concluded that the Damascus strike was a strategic inflection point, where failure to retaliate would carry more downsides than benefits,” Ali Vaez, the Iran director of the International Crisis Group, said.

“But in doing so, the shadow war it has been waging with Israel for years now threatens to turn into a very real and very damaging conflict,” one that could drag in the United States, he added.

Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, said Iran “made a choice to call Israel’s bluff, and they felt they needed to do so, because they see the last six months as a persistent effort to set them back across the region.”

“I think Tehran saw a need to draw this red line and make it clear to Israel that Iran does have red lines and would not continue to tolerate the slow degradation of its position,” she said.

The Times reported that Israel was considering a retaliatory strike last night, but the strike was called off after damage from the Iranian attack proved minimal.

Iran’s drone strikes show us President Biden’s approach with Iran and the Middle East is backwards. Now as we risk entering WWIII, the U.S. must stand by Israel’s commitment to democracy. The president must stand firm, and stop coddling Iran immediately.

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) April 13, 2024

In a post on X, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina urged a strong American response.

“Iran’s drone strikes show us President Biden’s approach with Iran and the Middle East is backwards. Now as we risk entering WWIII, the U.S. must stand by Israel’s commitment to democracy. The president must stand firm, and stop coddling Iran immediately,” she posted.

We stand with the people of Israel against this brazen and callous attack. Iran hates democracy, Freedom, and basic human rights — making them an enemy of Israel and the United States. I expect the Biden Administration to stand up for these shared principles and hold Iran…

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 13, 2024

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, urged action.

“We stand with the people of Israel against this brazen and callous attack. Iran hates democracy, Freedom, and basic human rights — making them an enemy of Israel and the United States. I expect the Biden Administration to stand up for these shared principles and hold Iran accountable,” she posted.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Sidney Mass Murderer Who Killed 7 in Sydney Mall Stabbing Attack Was a Male Escort Who Had History of Mental Illness

Sydney mass murderer and male escort, Joel Cauchi

A mass stabbing took place on Saturday at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction in Sydney, Australia on Saturday.

The terrorist murdered six people, including at least five women and one man, in the deadly attack.

Authorities say they are unsure of the killer’s motive.

The AP reported:

The 40-year-old was stopped in the knifing attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, when a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

“They just said run, run, run — someone’s been stabbed,” one witness told ABC TV in Australia. ”(The attacker) was walking really calmly like he was having an ice cream in a park. And then he went up the escalators … and probably within about a minute we heard three gunshots.”…

…police wouldn’t identify the man yet and were still working to determine his motivation.

pic.twitter.com/xvfkHiK9Zg

BREAKING:
Video of #Australians fleeing in panic after the #Islamist terror attack in #Sydney.
Several people stabbed to death.
We don’t have to live like this.

Video người dân Úc hoảng loạn chạy trốn sau vụ tấn công khủng bố Hồi giáo ở… https://t.co/koIgd3NDTG

— Lala She (@kidsbornie) April 13, 2024

Kristinn Taylor reported on the attack earlier this morning.

A mass stabbing attack at the Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Centre in Sydney, Australia took place Saturday afternoon local time. Several people, including a baby, were reported wounded in the attacks, with several reported killed.

The knifeman was reportedly shot and killed in the mall by a policewoman who quickly responded to reports of the attack.

A Sydney policewoman kneels over the terrorist who killed five people in a stabbing spree at a Sydney mall.

The New Zealand Herald is now reporting that the killer, Joel Cauchi, was a male escort who had a history of mental illness.

The man who murdered six people and injured another 12 when he went on a frenzied stabbing attack in a Sydney shopping centre had a history of mental health issues, was schizophrenic and had been working as a male escort before his rampage.

He was Joel Cauchi, 40, of Brisbane.

He killed 25-year-old Dawn Singleton, 38-year-old Ash Good, 30-year-old Faraz Ahmed Tahir and 47-year-old Jade Young. Two other victims are yet to be identified.

He was known to police before Saturday’s tragedy.

According to the Metro – He had set up profiles on several male escort websites, including Australia Cracker, Empire Escorts and Escorts Australia, according to reports.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rules Out Running on Libertarian Presidential Ticket

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy has ruled out running on the Libertarian presidential ticket.

There have been months of speculation that he was angling for the Libertarian Party nomination.

Kennedy told a reporter with ABC News on Saturday night that he would run independently.

“We’re not gonna have any problems getting on the ballot ourselves so we won’t be running libertarian,” Kennedy said.

NEWS: @RobertKennedyJr tells me he won’t run libertarian.

“I think, we’re gonna have – we’re not gonna have any problems getting on the ballot ourselves so we won’t be running libertarian,” he just told me before his ballot access event in Iowa. pic.twitter.com/C4HxB9UVmY

— Brittany Shepherd (@brittanys) April 13, 2024

Kennedy’s campaign confirmed the news in a statement to The Hill on Sunday.

“Mr. Kennedy has many areas of alignment with the Libertarian Party, including a strong stance on civil liberties and keeping the country out of foreign wars,” a spokesperson for Kennedy’s campaign told the outlet.

The statement continued, “Mr. Kennedy, however, is not contemplating joining the Libertarian ticket. He is running as an Independent candidate and will be on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.”

Both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concern that Kennedy may act as a spoiler for either party.

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Rand Paul: A Brave Marine Lt. Colonel Stepped Forward and Revealed that 15 US Agencies Knew COVID-19 Was Created in Lab in 2018 – But They Kept It Secret from American Public (VIDEO)

Senator Rand Paul with Maria Bartiromo.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who happens to be a US Senator and a Doctor of Ophthalmology, released a stunning report on Tuesday where he discovered that 15 different federal agencies knew that the Wuhan laboratory in China was trying to create a COVID-19 virus and they knew this since 2018.

Not one single official or employee in these 15 agencies revealed the truth to the American public during the pandemic. They should all be fired.

Rand Paul announced on Sunday that a brave Lt. Colonel in the Marines stepped forward with the information on the COVID origins. He was the only honest person in 15 agencies brave enough to expose the truth.

On Sunday, Senator Paul joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss this explosive revelation and more.

Maria Bartiromo:  Senator, real quick before you go, we’ve got to get into COVID as well. You are out with a report which shows that at least 15 federal agencies knew that gain-of-function research was being done in the Wuhan lab since what? 2018?

Senator Rand Paul:  Yeah, we know this because a whistleblower revealed it. Nobody in the administration has told us anything. We’ve gotten all of our information from whistleblower, but we now know it wasn’t just one agency that China was approaching. China made a presentation or an American representative, Peter Daszak, made a representation to 15 agencies about creating a virus that, guess what, looks suspiciously like COVID-19 and looks like no other virus in nature from that family. They were working on this and presented it to 15 agencies. And in 2020, when they saw COVID-19, they should have all been calling and raising the alarm and saying, “My goodness, we saw this two years ago. We knew the Chinese were doing this. Lo and behold, they did it.” Nobody in government came forward. Not one person. I take that back. A brave Marine, a lieutenant colonel, came forward and gave us that information, or today, we would still not know any of this.

Maria Bartiromo:  We haven’t seen any holding China to account for any of this, not just the leak, but then the cover up that followed. The Biden administration has yet to demand answers.

Senator Rand Paul:  The Biden administration has signed a pandemic treaty to give away all of our sovereignty so people from around the world, third-world countries that run these organizations, can tell us what to do, what kind of masks to wear, whether to wear goggles, earmuffs, and all the other ridiculous things that were offered up to surround ourselves by plexiglas. All the moronic ideas we’ve now farmed out. It’s not bad enough to have people in the United States telling us this. They farmed it out to an international treaty to let the rest of the world tell us how we’re going to live our lives the next time something bad like this happens.

As reported earlier…

In 2019 the virus escaped from the Wuhan laboratory at the same time US President Donald Trump had crippled the Chinese economy with his economic policies. The rest is history.

Dr. Tony Fauci, who funded the Wuhan laboratory for some reason, repeatedly lied to the American public about the origins of the virus.

As The Gateway Pundit reported back in May 2023, Fauci gave a $1.88 million grant and $16.5 million in NIH funding to a British scientist in January 2020 if he kept his mouth shut about the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

On January 31, 2020, Danish-born and British-educated scientist Kristian Andersen, emailed Dr. Tony Fauci saying the virus looks lab-made.

Kristian Anderson, “Some of the features look engineered” and the “genome looks inconsistent with evolutionary theory.”

Then on February 4, 2020, after a call with Dr. Tony Fauci, British scientist Kristian Anderson wrote that the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory.

Kristian Anderson, “The main crackpot theories going around at the moment related to this virus being somehow engineered… and that is demonstrably false.”

So what happened between January 31, 2020 and February 4, 2020?

Dr. Tony Fauci called Dr. Kristian Anderson and ordered him to publicly say the COVID virus was NOT lab-made.

The New York Times reported on Anderson’s early email to Dr. Fauci in an article published in June 2021.

Over the past year, Dr. Andersen has been one of the most outspoken proponents of the theory that the coronavirus originated from a natural spillover from an animal to humans outside of a lab. But in the email to Dr. Fauci in January 2020, Dr. Andersen hadn’t yet come to that conclusion. He told Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, that some features of the virus made him wonder whether it had been engineered, and noted that he and his colleagues were planning to investigate further by analyzing the virus’s genome.

The researchers published those results in a paper in the scientific journal Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, concluding that a laboratory origin was very unlikely. Dr. Andersen has reiterated this point of view in interviews and on Twitter over the past year, putting him at the center of the continuing controversy over whether the virus could have leaked from a Chinese lab.

When his early email to Dr. Fauci was released, the media storm around Dr. Andersen intensified, and he deactivated his Twitter account. He answered written questions from The New York Times about the email and the fracas. The exchange has been lightly edited for length.

Dr. Anderson switched his story in 4 days after his call with Tony Fauci.

But, The New York Times conveniently omitted that after his call with Dr. Fauci on February 1, 2020, Dr. Anderson was given a $1.88 million grant and $16.5 million in funding from NIAID, Dr. Fauci’s personal piggy bank.

Dr. Andrew Huff testified to this fact back in 2022. He released this information in a legal report he signed created by the Renz Law Group.

Dr. Andrew Huff reported that Dr. Anderson’s funding at the Scripps Research Institute increased from $393,079 per month, to $800,139 per month after he backed down on the COVID lab-leak theory.
(page 56)

Scientists later discovered the first victims of the COVID 19 pandemic were researchers from the Fauci-funded Wuhan lab.

And it was also discovered that a Fauci-run Montana laboratory conducted experiments with the Wuhan Coronavirus strain over a year before the global outbreak.

Now we learn from Senator Rand Paul that 15 different federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan laboratory was trying to create a coronavirus strain like COVID-19. Not one person had the guts to step forward and tell the truth to the American public.

And we all know it is likely that they will never be indicted or punished.

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Green Beret Veteran Rep. Michael Waltz Blasts Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy: “November Can’t Come Soon Enough”

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL)

On Saturday, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) blasted Joe Biden’s foreign policy after Iran launched drones toward Israel.

Rep. Waltz spoke with Fox News host Jon Scott and shared, “There is no other way to describe the Obama-Biden Middle East policy except as a dangerous disaster. I mean, this is an utter calamity. Just a few years ago, under President Trump, ISIS was destroyed, Iran was broke and on their back foot, and we had the Abraham Accords, and look where we are now.”

Waltz continued, “I think the fundamental mistake, the fundamental underpinning, has been an appeasement strategy from the Biden Administration that is so focused on what they called de-escalation that it has signaled to the region, and certainly to Iran, that they have room to push, that they can achieve their goals as the Biden administration continues to try to appease and back away and that’s been reinforced.”

“Just last year, we refused to push the UN to renew sanctions on Iran’s drone and missile program. Now, they are literally flying towards Israel.”

“We have not enforced the oil sanctions, 90% of their oil is being sold to China. We have backed away from our greatest ally, Israel, very publicly.”

“And by the way, we spent the last couple of years practically begging Iran to get back into an Iran deal using Russia as an intermediary, and the lead negotiator is now under investigation by the FBI for some type of traitorous activity towards Iran … the list is so long that Iran clearly thinks it can get away with this and sees this as an opportunity.”

Waltz then shared what most Americans are thinking…“November can’t come soon enough,” adding, “We have to have a commander-in-chief that our enemies respect and fear.”

“And we do not have that right now.”

Watch:

(Rep. Waltz begins at the 9:10 mark)

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REPORT: Biden Won’t Support an Israeli Counterattack Against Iran, Urging Netanyahu to ‘Take the Win’

Joe Biden will not support an Israeli counterattack against Iran after the Islamic regime escalated the conflict between the two countries.

On Saturday evening, Iran launched attack drones and missiles towards Israel in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general.

However, Axios reports that Biden said in a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he will not support any retaliatory attacks from the Israeli Defense Forces:

Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran’s attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.

…

Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.

Biden also reportedly urged Netanyahu to “take the win” after Israel successfully intercepted nearly all the drones with the support of the U.S. military:

Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.

“You got a win. Take the win,” Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official. The official said that when Biden told Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran and will not support such operations, Netanyahu said he understood.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke on Saturday with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant and asked that Israel notify the U.S. ahead of any response against Iran, a senior Israeli official said.

In his official statement on Saturday evening, Biden confirmed that he had spoken with Netanyahu but did not provide any specific details:

“I’ve just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel.  I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks – sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.”

“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he continued. “My team will engage with their counterparts across the region.  And we will stay in close touch with Israel’s leaders.  And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people.”

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With Strategic Petroleum Reserve at Historic Lows, Biden Cancels Replenishment Order

After drastically depleting the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to buy votes during the midterm election, President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy has announced it will not purchase up to 3 million barrels of oil from a site in Louisiana in August and September, as originally intended.

“Keeping the taxpayer’s interest at the forefront, we will not award for the Bayou Choctaw SPR site in August and September and will continue to solicit available capacity as market conditions allow,” a department spokesperson said according to S&P Global.

“As always, we monitor market dynamics to remain nimble and innovative in our successful replenishment approach to protect this critical national security asset.”

Reportedly, the current oil prices are scaring away the DOE from purchasing, as current oil barrel prices are around $85 — above the $79 a barrel it’s aiming for.

Oil has gradually risen in price over the past few weeks, jumping a considerable 10 percent in the last month alone and 20 percent since mid-December, according to The New York Times.

Of course, oil and gas are far from the only thing rising under the Biden administration.

Inflation in general continues to miss the targeted goal, seeing considerable jumps monthly.

Nonetheless, regardless of rising prices in oil, the record-low levels can’t help but draw concern.

The SPR was originally signed into law by President Gerald Ford in 1975 following a massive oil crisis that followed the 1973-74 oil embargo.

The reserve was intended to function as an emergency source of fuel for the nation in times of crisis, ensuring essential functions such as our country’s military wouldn’t be ruined by a shortage.

Today, it doesn’t seem that same understanding is seen.

The four underground storage facilities for the SPR, located along the Gulf of Mexico, currently have an “authorized capacity” of 714 million barrels, according to the Department of Energy.

The most ever held for the SPR was close to 727 million barrels in 2009, according to Reuters. (Evidently they had a higher capacity at one time.)

In 2022, the Biden administration announced plans to sell 180 million barrels “in an attempt to lower gasoline prices after Russia invaded Ukraine,” Reuters reported.

Biden’s sale that year was in addition to 38 million barrels that Congress had ordered sold, a practice lawmakers came up with to fund government programs, according to the outlet.

Those sales drained the SPR to its lowest level in about 40 years. It now stands at 363.6 million barrels, according to Reuters. That’s just over half of where it should be in the best of times — and these certainly are not the best of times.

There’s a good reason that the SPR was created and with the levels it sits at now, it’s unlikely to be able to fulfill that purpose.

Incidentally, Biden’s predecessor recognized the importance of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and tried to replenish it, according to the National Review.

“When former president Donald Trump attempted to fill the SPR to the brim when oil prices were at a rock-bottom price of $24 a barrel, congressional Democrats blocked the purchase, claiming it would be an oil-industry bailout,” the outlet reported.

Oil is an essential part of everyday life, whether green energy advocates want to admit it or not.

When a crisis comes, the country will need sources of energy like oil to keep the military and economy properly functioning. Otherwise, things could get much worse.

But rather than existing for times of emergency or crisis, President Joe Biden decided to throw away what had been accrued for a handful of extra votes in 2022.

The saddest part is that Biden is doubly responsible for the issue at hand, being responsible for both the low levels of the SPR and the high prices of oil.

Rather than playing both sides to always come out on top, it seems the president is playing both sides to always lose.

Perhaps if earlier in his administration, Biden had permitted more drilling on federal land, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

Unfortunately, the commander in chief has constantly foiled any attempts to drill on federal land.

It’s almost like he’s intentionally forcing gas prices to climb.

Every solution that has been right in front of him he’s denied, constantly instead appealing to environmental extremists within his party.

Oil excavation is not pretty, but it’s necessary — fighting against it will only hurt the nation.

Biden and his climate freaks need to suck it up and do what’s best for the nation, even if it breaks their vapid little hearts.

Not refilling the SPR, even if it costs a pretty penny, could cost the nation far more.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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