{"id":2240972,"date":"2024-05-09T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-accuses-biden-of-betrayal-hopes-israel-aid-threat-was-senior-moment\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:54:01","slug":"speaker-johnson-accuses-biden-of-betrayal-hopes-israel-aid-threat-was-senior-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-accuses-biden-of-betrayal-hopes-israel-aid-threat-was-senior-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson accuses Biden of betrayal over Israel aid threat, hopes it was just a &#8216;senior moment."},"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\">34<\/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%2Fspeaker-johnson-accuses-biden-of-betrayal-hopes-israel-aid-threat-was-senior-moment%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=2240972&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--><p>House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized President Joe \u2063Biden\u200c for suggesting \u2062the US might withhold weapons shipments\u2062 to Israel during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-military-calls-for-evacuations-in-rafah-ahead-of-possible-ground-operation\/\" title=\"Israeli Military Urges Evacuations in Rafah Before Potential Ground Operation\">potential ground\u200c operation<\/a> in Rafah, Gaza. In an interview with POLITICO,\u2064 Johnson accused Biden of \u200dbreaking a deal on \u200ca $95 billion foreign aid package last month and hoped it \u200cwas a\u200c mere \u200c&#8221;senior moment&#8221; rather than official\u200b policy. House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized President Joe \u200bBiden for\u200b proposing the \u200dpossibility of\u2064 the US holding \u200bback weapon supplies \u2064to Israel during \u2064a potential ground operation in Rafah, Gaza. Johnson, speaking to POLITICO, \u200caccused Biden of reneging on \u200ba $95 billion foreign aid deal and expressed \u200dhope that it was a temporary lapse in memory rather than \u200da new policy stance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) chided President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> for suggesting the United States could withhold shipments of weapons to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel<\/a> if it launches a full-scale ground operation in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip city where many Palestinians have taken refuge during the war against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/johnson-slams-bidens-senior-moment-on-israel-aid-00156994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with POLITICO<\/a> on Wednesday, Johnson reportedly accused Biden of reneging on a deal to pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-passes-95-billion-foreign-aid-package-with-possible-tiktok-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$95 billion foreign aid bill<\/a> last month. He said he hoped the president was experiencing a \u201csenior moment\u201d that did not actually convey U.S. policy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the comments regarding Israel while appearing for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/08\/politics\/joe-biden-interview-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN town hall<\/a> as he shared insight into his long-standing opposition to Israel conducting a ground operation in Rafah to root out Hamas terrorists amid concerns about more casualties among civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made it clear that if they go into Rafah \u2014 they haven\u2019t gone in Rafah yet \u2014 if they go into Rafah, I\u2019m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities \u2014 that deal with that problem,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1715184052205000&#038;usg=AOvVaw30mpznqHO0I3crFOdodkQW\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In another interview that took place on Thursday, Johnson condemned Biden for signaling that his administration might halt shipments of weapons to a key U.S. ally more than six months into Israel\u2019s fight against Hamas after the group\u2019s deadly surprise attack in October of last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s defying the will of Congress and he\u2019s defying what his own top officials in the White House assured me in writing and verbally before that supplemental was passed and even in the days since,\u201d Johnson said of Biden during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=om3NmPS1GIY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a \u201cFox and Friends\u201d appearance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis idea of withholding weapons to Israel as a condition of somehow, you know, Joe Biden wanting to micromanage their war effort over their defensive effort is catastrophic policy,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-appears-to-flip-flop-on-afghanistan-again\/\" title=\"Nancy Pelosi Appears To Flip-Flop On Afghanistan, Again\">speaker added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be devastating to our closest ally in the region, and it would go directly against the will of what the members of this body voted on just several days ago, so they have got to answer the American people in answer to us and we\u2019re on that right now,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized President Joe Biden for hinting at the possibility of holding back arms shipments to Israel amid a potential ground operation in Rafah, Gaza. Johnson&#8217;s comments came in an interview with POLITICO, expressing concerns about the impact on Palestinians sheltering in the conflict-hit area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2240973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2152099134-scaled-e1715272966500.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2152099134-scaled-e1715272966500.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240972","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}