CV NEWS FEED // On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, former President Donald Trump honored the victims, forcefully denounced anti-Semitism, and vowed that the United States would be respected on the world stage if he is sent back to the White House next month.
“The October 7 attack would never have happened if I was president,” Trump said.
The Republican nominee said that under the Biden-Harris administration “weakness only begets violence and war.”
“It’s weakness, but there’s a lot of hatred going around also,” he said. “What is needed more than ever is a return of unwavering American leadership and unquestioned American strength.”
He said under his administration the country was “strong, we were powerful, we were respected.”
“That’s what I intend to deliver as the 47th President of the United States,” he vowed.
Hamas’ surprise attack one year ago ignited an ongoing deadly war between Israel and the radical Islamic terror group.
Trump delivered his remarks at a memorial for the attack’s victims held at his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Doral, Florida.
Multiple Republican federal lawmakers attended the event, including Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-FL, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-FL, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-FL, and Rep. David Kustoff, R-TN, and former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY – who all also delivered remarks prior to Trump’s speech.
“We’re here this evening in solemn remembrance of one of the darkest hours in all of human history,” the former president said at the beginning of his speech. “One year ago today, every civilized person was filled with shock, and horror, and grief at the news of an evil so absolute … it can barely be described.”
“October 7 was not just the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, it was not just the worst terror attack since 9/11, it was an attack on humanity itself,” he went on. “It was a hideous, incredible cruelty, it was chilling savagery, it was demonic delight.”
“The destruction of innocent life on October 7, it seemed as if the gates of Hell had sprung open and unleashed their horrors onto the world,” Trump said. “Today, we mourn more than 1,200 innocent victims of the October 7 attacks. We honor them with grace and with gratitude, for their lives and for their families.”
Following a moment of silence for the victims, Trump stated: “To every family that lost a loved one … we grieve with you, we stand with you, and we make you this … very simple vow: Never again.”
“The monsters who perpetrated those murders also took over 250 hostages – men, women, and children, including 12 Americans,” Trump noted:
In so doing they inflicted the most unthinkable torture not only on their captives but also on the families who were forced to live day after day in excruciating agony and pain not knowing whether their loved ones were dead or alive. Can you think of anything worse?
Tonight, we send our love to every innocent soul who remains in Hamas captivity. We just are not going to stand for it. We’re not going to take it. We’re not going to take it any longer.
“We pray that through the darkness that we have not forgotten them, we have not forsaken them,” he said. “We will never abandon them, and with God’s help, they will come safely home.”
“Over the past year, there has been an effort by some to deny the horrors of October 7, just as some unbelievably deny the Holocaust itself,” Trump went on to say. “That’s why it’s so important to remember and to state clearly for history what happened on that terrible day.”
“We can never forget,” he stressed. “The nightmare of that day still hangs.”
Trump went on to tell harrowing stories of the day’s Re’im music festival massacre, where Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds of civilians, many of them young people, and took dozens more hostage.
“A baby was shot through the heart while still in the mother’s womb,” he recounted. “Ready to be born and shot.”
“Today, we reaffirm [for] the entire world to hear that there can be no acceptance, no excuse, and no understanding of this kind of evil,” said Trump. “Nothing can justify it, nothing can rationalize it.”
“And any person who sympathizes with it,” he said, there’s “a sickness in their soul and a darkness in their heart.”
“Almost as shocking as October 7 itself is the outbreak of anti-Semitism that we have all seen in its wake,” he stated. “And a lot of it has to do with the leadership of this country.”
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“This attack should have rallied the entire world in support of the Jewish people,” he said. “Instead, the ancient scourge of anti-Jewish hatred … has returned.”
“Even here in America in our streets, our media, and our college campuses – and within the ranks of the Democrat Party in particular,” he said.
“Anti-Semitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society. It has no place in our universities, and it has no place in the United States of America,” he warned. “We can not continue down this dangerous path. We must stop this perilous slide into conflict, hatred, and destruction.”
“I will support Israel’s right to win its war on terror and it has to win it fast,” the former president said.
