Trump: Kamala Harris caused October 7 attack, hates Israel

Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of causing the October 7 massacre in a post on his social media platform, TruthSocial, on Friday morning.

"[Harris] caused the Attack of October 7th. Iran was BROKE - Didn’t have money for Hezbollah!" he wrote. 

On October 7, Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel through the Gaza border, murdering over 1200 Israelis and taking over 250 hostages. Trump has blamed the attack on the Biden-Harris administration multiple times.

In a March interview with Israel Hayom, Trump claimed that had been in the Oval Office, the war would not have broken out.

Trump also wrote in his Truth Social post that Harris "hates Israel - Wouldn’t even show up to Congress for Netanyahu’s session."

Kamala Harris, in her DNC speech on Thursday, said "Let me be clear. I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself."

"Because the people of Israel must never again face the war that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7, unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival."

Trump previously said in an interview with Elon Musk on X, formerly Twitter, that any Jewish person who votes for Kamala Harris in the US Presidential elections should have their "head examined." 

The Vice President did not attend Netanyahu's July speech at the US Congress, a move highly criticized by the Republican party.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said “You want to be the leader of the free world, and yet you can’t bring yourself to sit behind our most important and strategic ally in this moment. That is not a good look for you."

Representative Jim Jordan said Harris did not welcome Netanyahu on the tarmac when his plane landed.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2024

Trump also said that Harris, as US Vice President, has enabled tyrants to become "strong, rich and powerful" due to weakness and ineffective. He also took issue with her social and economic policies, such as immigration and violent crime.

"Biden-Harris accomplishments"

Both on TruthSocial and his X, formerly Twitter, account, Trump posted a graphic titled "Biden-Harris accomplishments."

The graphic featured a list of bullet points, including "Israel-Hamas War" and "Russia-Ukraine War," suggesting that the current administration was to blame for both conflicts.

He said that violent crime has "skyrocketed" under the pairing. However, a recent Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) report on violent crime in the first half of 2024 said that most violent crimes are equal to or lower than 2019 levels and that homicide had dropped by 13%, based on data from 29 cities. 

Trump has previously been known to make factually incorrect statements. Following his term in office as the US President, the Washington Post found that Trump had "accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day."

CNN debunked 20 claims that Trump made in the recent Elon Musk interview. For example, he said that Iran during his presidency had "no money for Hamas, they had no money for Hezbollah, they had no money for any of these instruments of terror.”

While Iran’s funding for these groups did decline in the second half of Trump's administration, CNN found, the funding never stopped entirely, citing four experts.

Hannah Sarisohn contributed to this report.