Biden or Trump – who should claim credit for the Gaza ceasefire deal?
by Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#6TKMT)
Joe Biden says his team negotiated deal but Donald Trump claims it was agreed now only because he is about to become president
The question yelled at Joe Biden by a reporter was unapologetically blunt: Who do you think deserves credit for this Mr President: you or [Donald] Trump?"
Biden had just finished announcing what he presented as his signature foreign policy achievement - a ceasefire-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas to halt the bloody war in Gaza that has left 46,000 Palestinians and 1,700 Israelis dead. He wasn't in the mood for that debate.
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