A top Republican has accused lame-duck President Joe Biden’s administration of pushing to embolden Iran for political reasons.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) blasted the Biden admin for shrugging off an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.
The congressman warns that Biden’s White House is emboldening Iran in the hope that the Islamic nation will kill Trump.
Waltz said the White House is sending a message that there are “no consequences” for targeting Trump.
A Pakistani man was recently charged in New York in an Iranian plot to kill Trump.
The would-be assassin’s name wasn’t mentioned in the Justice Department’s indictment.
The assassination plot came shortly after Trump narrowly survived an attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“The Department of Justice, when they unveiled the indictment, didn’t even name Trump as the target,” Waltz told Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo.
“They tried to soft-pedal it and just say, oh, it was a politician.
“So this wasn’t an isolated incident in Butler, Pa.”
Trump angered the Iranian regime by ordering the assassination of its top terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani in 2020.
While Trump held Iran “accountable,” Waltz said, Biden and Kamala Harris have taken a softer approach.
“He held them accountable,” he