GOP Lawmaker: Under Joe Biden, This Country 'Is Less Safe'

5 months ago

On "Forbes Newsroom," Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY) spoke about the safety of Americans under President Biden.

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00:00That it that was the case at least in my circles and I got many texts from Democratic voters saying

00:05hey, I didn't like this this alarmed me as a

00:09Democrat and if I didn't know Donald Trump the past four years of him as president between 2017 and 2021

00:16I would think he's more presidential right now

00:19So is President Biden how we saw him on on Thursday?

00:24Is that a one-off or is that congruous with how you see him when you're working more closely with him as lawmaker?

00:30I think it's what we've seen. I think it's a pattern

00:33Obviously some days I think President Biden is sharp and on point. It's rare

00:39But for the majority of the time when you see him when you see him speak to the press

00:44I mean, it's one of the reasons as to why he avoids talking to the press, you know

00:48sometimes he goes days and weeks without actually having a conversation with the press as the

00:54You know as the the commander-in-chief of the United States of America

00:59President Trump

01:00Was perceived by the American people as presidential because right now

01:05He he certainly is acting presidential. He

01:09Understands what this country is facing. He realizes that under the failed leadership of Joe Biden

01:15We've seen over 10 million people come into this country illegally

01:20We've seen over 2 million people that are known gotaways. We know that they crossed the southern border

01:26we don't know where they are what they're doing or who they are associating with in addition to the millions more who have just come

01:31across and we

01:32Legitimately have no idea where they are what they're doing over there associating with there is no question that because of President Biden's

01:40Failed policies his failed leadership. This country is less safe. I speak to law enforcement professionals every single day

01:47I'm a member of the House Homeland Security Committee where we receive briefings and there is no question

01:52It is not if we will have another terrorist attack

01:56It's when we will have another terrorist attack just a couple of weeks ago. There were people that

02:01had ISIS ties that were

02:03you know, they were

02:06interrupted by the by

02:09agencies law enforcement agencies

02:11Because they came across our southern border just a couple of days ago the chief of detectives in the NYPD

02:17Who's dealing with this every single day because of the the migrants that are making their home in New York City?

02:23I mean, we've had just what two weeks ago

02:26You had a 13 year old that was raped by an illegal migrant in Queens. You've had cops that were shot at by illegal migrants

02:33we now have

02:35Venezuelan gangs who are putting

02:37who are smuggling illegal firearms into

02:41Migrant shelters through

02:44Uber Eats and and delivery services. I mean they are putting

02:49videos out on social media

02:51Recruiting new members of these dangerous Venezuelan gangs and these are all individuals who are coming across our border illegally

02:58So President Trump is presidential because he understands that and when he was president

03:03We didn't have the issues that we're facing now. Am I saying that the country was perfect?

03:07Absolutely not but over the last three and a half years Joe Biden has legitimately

03:12Destroyed so many aspects of this beautiful country people feel less safe because they are less safe our

03:20Partners or our adversaries I should say across the globe are looking at us as weak and they're taking us

03:26They're taking advantage of us. I mean under President Trump

03:29There is no way that we would allowed

03:32Allowed a Chinese spy balloon to come across the entire United States of America before it was taken down

03:38It just wouldn't happen

03:39I believe that we wouldn't have seen the attacks in Israel

03:43From from Hamas and obviously the proxies of Iran that would have never happened under the leadership of President Trump

03:50We are looked at as weak. We hear it every single day. We see it by the decisions that our adversaries are making

GOP Lawmaker: Under Joe Biden, This Country 'Is Less Safe'

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