{"id":1176729,"date":"2021-12-31T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176729"},"modified":"2021-12-31T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:04:33","slug":"exclusive-rep-mike-waltz-biden-worst-president-for-human-rights-in-modern-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-mike-waltz-biden-worst-president-for-human-rights-in-modern-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014 Rep. Mike Waltz: Biden \u2018Worst President for Human Rights in Modern American History\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-mike-waltz-biden-worst-president-for-human-rights-in-modern-american-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176729&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235879198-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted the Biden administration, claiming the world now \u201csees weakness in the White House,\u201d while calling Biden the \u201cworst president for human rights in modern American history\u201d and warning \u201ctrend lines\u201d suggest the U.S. may cede its superpower status to China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking with Breitbart News on Thursday, Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, a Florida native who represents the Sunshine State\u2019s 6th congressional district, weighed in on current issues, offering his unique perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>A colonel in the National Guard as well as a former White House and Pentagon policy adviser, Rep. Waltz was the first Green Beret to be elected to Congress.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Biden Administration<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz began by blasting the current administration, highlighting human rights abuses taking place on its watch despite the president having promised when taking office to make the issue a centerpiece of his policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI think Biden has been the worst president for human rights in modern American history, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s an overstatement,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf you look at the amount of girls coming over our southern border that are being sold into human trafficking \u2014 upwards of 40% according to Doctors Without Borders; if you look at what\u2019s happening to minorities and women in Afghanistan that he just abandoned; if you look at the ongoing genocide in China, and we could keep going around the world \u2013 he has done nothing for human rights!\u201d he asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz explained why he is hardly surprised by the results produced by the current administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou have the same team around Biden that was around [former President] Obama and they have the same underlying philosophy, so you\u2019re going to get many of the same results as we had back then,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He then criticized policies of the Obama administration that the team advising President Biden supported despite the undesirable outcomes of each.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cBack then this team thought the [U.S. Army deserter Bowe] Bergdahl trade was a good idea; thought the Iran deal was a good idea; thought giving everything away to Cuba and Venezuela with nothing in return was a good idea,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe can walk around the world not responding to a land invasion in Europe of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, was the \u2018right approach,\u2019\u201d he added. \u201cThe march across the South China Sea, we can go on and on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>As a result, he argued, the same outcomes could be expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo you\u2019re going to see that same result now and we are seeing the same results,\u201d he said, adding that, \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from the Abraham Accords to literally rocket violence on Israeli cities, Iran is on the threshold of having a nuclear weapon, and Russia [is] amassing on <\/span><span>the <\/span><span>Ukrainian border again.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz went on to explain that the administration\u2019s approach is seen as \u201cweakness\u201d among U.S. adversaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThey know they can get away with it and it\u2019s all underscored by a philosophy of appeasement and concessions and \u2018if we can just get people to the table with diplomacy first, then we can solve problems,\u2019\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd we all know that our adversaries see that as weakness and will take full advantage of it, and that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re doing,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>China<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Claiming \u201cthe world sees weakness in the White House right now,\u201d Waltz warned that \u201cour adversaries are going to run with it and take as much advantage of it as they can\u201d in the next two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think with China in particular, we are in a very dangerous period between this summer,\u201d he said, \u201cso that will be after the Olympics and after the Communist Party conference, where [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] will essentially be re-elected for life.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAfter this summer and between Summer \u201822 and November \u201824 when they will see an opportunity to take advantage of this perceived weakness,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz remarked that he believes the \u201ctrend lines\u201d are heading in the direction of a United States ceding its role as a superpower.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll you have to do is read Xi\u2019s unfiltered speeches \u2014 not the watered-down translations they released to the public but the actual translations \u2014 where he openly talks about replacing the United States as a superpower,\u201d he said, \u201cand all the trend lines are heading in that direction.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTheir navy is larger than ours now,\u201d he added. \u201cThe average age of their ships is half ours; they\u2019ve launched more into space than the rest of the world combined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But what makes China the greatest threat, according to Waltz, is its having \u201cco-opted\u201d so much of American society to achieve its ambitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think the biggest threat is how they\u2019ve co-opted so many aspects of American society and that\u2019s what makes them unlike any other threat the United States has ever faced and more dangerous and a huge threat that we face,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claiming that applies \u201cfrom Wall Street to Hollywood to the sports industry to our politics,\u201d he lamented how the U.S. is \u201cawash\u201d from Chinese funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are awash from Chinese money and the number of organizations, from Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan to [Jeff] Bezos at Amazon, that are willing to turn a blind eye for their next quarter balance sheet is really frankly disgusting and disturbing,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2022 Beijing Olympics<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Noting he was the first Congressmember to introduce a resolution calling for a \u201cfull boycott\u201d of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics \u201cback in February before it became cool,\u201d Waltz claimed he initially pressed for altering the games\u2019 venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve been pressuring the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and I want to be clear: the preference was for it to move the games,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSenator Rick Scott (R-FL), myself, and others had been asking the IOC in letter after letter, engagement after engagement, to move the games when there was still plenty of time,\u201d he added, \u201cbut once we were 12 months out it became clear that the IOC was not going to do that so we called for a full boycott.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz expressed dissatisfaction with other prominent figures for what he deemed hypocrisy on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would ask those conservatives, I would ask the athletes, I would ask the sponsors: did any of you who say, \u2018well we shouldn\u2019t introduce politics into athletics\u2019 \u2014 number one: that ship has sailed \u2014 but number two: did they disagree with the IOC introducing politics when it came to apartheid? Did they think that was a bad move?\u201d he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause the IOC banned South Africa for the better part of three decades from any Olympic event happening in South Africa or even their team competing anywhere else,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Attributing the hypocrisy to money, Waltz highlighted his introducing of measures to limit Olympic sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhy was it OK for apartheid but not now with China with an ongoing genocide?\u201d he asked. \u201cThe answer, we all know, is how much money everybody is making.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo I\u2019ve introduced measures to ban Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft from transporting anybody to the Olympics and banned the Olympic sponsors from selling their goods on military bases,\u201d he added, noting his support for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, \u201cwhich finally, thanks to [Sen.] Marco Rubio\u2019s great work finally passed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cExtremism\u201d within the U.S. Military<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>He also addressed the Biden administration\u2019s preoccupation with targeting the military to purge it of \u201cextremism\u201d as well as a recent Defense Department report <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/pentagon-finds-fewer-than-100-troops-engaged-in-extremist-activity-in-past-year\/\"><span>detailing<\/span><\/a><span> efforts to rout out \u201cextremists\u201d and ensure \u201conly the best qualified recruits are selected for services.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA lot of it, if you look at the language around it and you look at [Defense] Secretary [Lloyd] Austin\u2019s language around it, they say extremism but then it\u2019s followed very closely by white supremacism,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd much of this language came out in the wake of January 6 and is feeding into that narrative.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But, according to Waltz, the data does not confirm that narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe interesting thing is the actual data doesn\u2019t support their narrative so that\u2019s point one,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause the report cited 100 instances of extremism \u2014 I haven\u2019t really dug through it to break that down \u2014 but I bet you a good number of that 100 were gang-related or Islamic extremism-related and not all white supremacy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Regardless, that number, he said, must also be seen in proportion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut even just take that 100 number on its face value out of the two and a half million in our military \u2014 It\u2019s something like .005 percent,\u201d he said. \u201cYet this is the number one priority of the Defense Secretary and the administration when it comes to the military, despite all of those other threats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stressing the overall need to root out extremism, Waltz pointed to the unusual prioritization of the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI want to be clear: we should always root out extremism at every instance,\u201d he said. \u201cSince [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh and [Fort Hood shooter] Nidal Hassan, we\u2019ve had to deal with a number of high-profile cases, and we should always root it out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut the data does not support it being the number one priority of the Defense Department,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz claimed the fixation on a constant threat of extremism \u201cfits into the broader narrative,\u201d though it isn\u2019t reflective of the reality.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe had a hearing in the House and I asked the chairman about the growing threat and the rising tide of white supremacy in the military and I asked both the Democratic chairman and every witness where\u2019s the data that supports that narrative,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s not there,\u201d he added, \u201cbut yet they\u2019re pushing this narrative.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He lamented the decrease in Americans\u2019 confidence in the military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat is so disturbing is we\u2019ve seen a significant drop in confidence in the U.S. military amongst the American public, which is probably the last bastion of confidence when it comes to a government institution,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAccording to the Reagan Institute: from 70% [confidence] to below 50%,\u201d he added, \u201cand so this narrative that they\u2019re pushing is incredibly dangerous and I\u2019m going to push back on it until somebody shows me the actual data, but [according to] their own report: .005%.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Iran<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked whether he trusted President Biden to fulfill his stated pledge to prevent the Iranian regime from attaining nuclear weapons, Waltz replied he did not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span>I don\u2019t have 100% faith in him backing that up, not with a military option,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Biden administration \u2014 from [Secretary of State] Tony Blinken to [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan to [President] Biden himself \u2014 the typical first card they play is taking a military option off the table,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey just did it with Russia and Ukraine,\u201d he added, \u201cand so that makes diplomacy that much more difficult when you do that.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claiming that such an approach is part of their \u201cunderlying philosophy,\u201d Waltz said, \u201cthey just don\u2019t seem to understand that you always leave all options on the table, particularly when you\u2019re dealing with autocratic dictatorial regimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know how this ends up well at this point,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz surmised that President Trump, in the event he\u2019d have continued to a second term, would have forced the Iranians to negotiate a far better deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think if [former President] Trump had had a second term and continued the full maximum pressure campaign, even though there was some leakage with China in terms of oil sales, I do believe the Iranians would have come to the table from a position of weakness and we could have struck a much better deal,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But with \u201cthe same team now around Biden that they dealt with with [former President] Obama,\u201d Waltz claimed the Iranians \u201csee opportunity [and] advantage.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen that in how they\u2019ve approached the negotiations and all they care about is telling us what we want to hear,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re deceiving the world so that they can get sanctions dropped and those billions will flow right into the regime and right into their terrorist proxies and right Into their nuclear program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz also claimed he feared Sullivan, on a recent trip to Israel, \u201cmade it clear to the Israelis we won\u2019t provide the military support for them to take a military option, so that they, the Israelis, have no choice.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo I think that\u2019s a big question mark sitting out there,\u201d he added. \u201cWhat happened in those discussions, and what message did the administration convey to our greatest ally in the Middle East?\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>International terrorism<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Since the start of the Biden administration, Waltz claimed global terrorism \u201chas gotten a big shot in the arm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe message across the Middle East is jihad has won, democracy has lost,\u201d he said, warning that terror groups may be planning further attacks on America.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think al-Qaeda fully intends to attack us again,\u201d he warned. \u201cThey\u2019re developing the capability to do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI fully expect the United States to have to go back and deal with that either on the periphery or actually in Afghanistan, and right now, I think we\u2019re seeing an axis of terror developed from Hamas to Iran\u2019s proxies and ISIS in Syria and Iraq to Iran itself to the Taliban caliphate,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd it\u2019s just not a good situation at all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz has been a frequent critic of the Biden administration and its policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last month, Waltz <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/11\/26\/waltz-bidens-iran-approach-will-be-what-can-we-concede-to-get-a-deal-partial-deal-would-be-weaker-than-obama-iran-deal\/\"><span>blasted<\/span><\/a><span> President Biden\u2019s \u201cwrong approach\u201d on Iran, calling a partial Iran nuclear deal weaker than the one struck under the Obama administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In September, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/us-plans-to-keep-al-qaeda-in-check-in-afghanistan-with-air-strikes\/\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> President Biden and Defense Secretary Austin of \u201cselling this country a fiction\u201d that the U.S. could manage a resurgence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan&nbsp; \u201cwith nothing\u201d there, following the U.S. pullout of troops from there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein.<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted the Biden administration, claiming the world now \u201csees weakness in the White House,\u201d while calling Biden the \u201cworst &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}