Bill Ackman: Biden-Harris Response To October 7 Made America Less Safe

Billionaire Bill Ackman, a long-time Democrat donor, sharply criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over their administration’s response to the October 7th massacre in Israel, saying that their weak response to the Hamas terrorists who perpetrated those attacks had made Americans less safe.

Ackman was among the first to call out the virulent anti-semitism — at Harvard University and on other college campuses nationwide — in the wake of the attacks, and he noted in a Sunday X post that the Biden-Harris administration had done little in the months since to suggest that they had any interest in fixing the clear and present problem.

Consider that Hamas chose to execute an American hostage with a bullet to the back of his head during the last two or three days (along with five other hostages) whose parents just spoke at the DNC less than two weeks ago, while hostage negotiations were underway.

Consider that…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) September 1, 2024

“Consider that Hamas chose to execute an American hostage with a bullet to the back of his head during the last two or three days (along with five other hostages) whose parents just spoke at the DNC less than two weeks ago, while hostage negotiations were underway,” Ackman began, referencing the tragic news that American Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was one of six recently-executed hostages found by Israeli Forces in Rafah.

“Consider that the U.S. strategy over the last 330 days has been to pressure Israel to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, including through the withholding of weapons from @Israel, and by periodically leaking our failure to support our ally to the media in the midst of hostage negotiations. Consider what pressure if any the U.S. has brought to bear on Hamas and our friends in the region who harbor Hamas’ leadership?” Ackman continued, asking, :Why? Why has our leadership adopted this failed strategy?”

The answer, Ackman said, was simple: politics. The Democrats were under political pressure not to help Israel or to stand against the terrorist group Hamas, but to stand by and allow the terrorists to operate unchecked — all to appease a small but vocal group within their own party.

“Biden (who has been on vacation for 16 days) and @KamalaHarris, who also just skipped a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery to honor 13 fallen soldiers from the failed Afghanistan withdrawal, along with their advisers in the DNC, believe they will lose important votes in certain key swing states and from Hamas supporters on campuses,” Ackman explained.

He went on to argue that strength, “brute force,” was historically the only language to which terrorists respond — and that instead of pressuring Israel to stand down, the Unites States should have been rallying any and all willing forces to aid Israel in their attempts to stamp out Hamas altogether.

“The United States should have put more pressure on our other allies in the region to help, and done everything we can to help Israel defeat Hamas and recover the hostages, but unfortunately this was not good politics for Biden/Harris and some of their supporters,” he said.

But the real problem is that in addition to ramping up the danger for Israel, the Biden-Harris response had also made Americans at home “less safe.”

“By being weak and lacking resolve, we failed our captured, now dead citizens, and the other hostages and their families while emboldening terrorists around the world. The result: It has become much less safe to be an American since October 7th because of our failed leadership. It has become much less safe to be a member of the free world since October 7th because of our failed leadership,” he concluded. “We are in desperate need for a change in leadership so our enemies once again fear the United States and think twice before they act against us and/or our allies. The time has come.”