President Donald Trump’s strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, as well as his warnings to Iran about sponsoring them, show that he is “not afraid to use American power,” former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie said on Newsmax, Sunday.
“I think President Trump has restored force to what I consider to be the five most important words in the English language: ‘I am an American citizen,'” Wilkie, who chairs the Center for National Security at the America First Policy Institute, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “Joe Biden refused to do anything to stop these brigands sponsored by Iran and Vladimir Putin from halting shipping in the world’s second busiest sea lanes.
“The downstream consequences of that were not only humiliation for the United States and the painting of our forces as paper tigers, but it almost wrecked the Egyptian economy.”
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