Fox Guest Boasts Terrorist Designation Enacted On Last Day Of Trump Presidency Prevented Attacks

Fox regular and former Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn during the Trump administration, KT McFarland, wants us to believe designating the Houthis as a terrorist organization literally one day before Trump left office prevented them from attacking the United States.

Here's McFarland on this Saturday's Fox & Friends, being asked about the US/UK retaliatory airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

MCFARLAND: Yeah, and it's so frustrating to watch this, because in the Trump administration Iran wasn't doing this through its proxies. Iran didn't have the money to, because oil prices were low, because we had sanctions on Iranian oil.

And, we had sanctions, we had put the Houthis on the terror watch list, for example, so there was no way these countries and their proxies could attack the United States. And now we're seeing, with the reversal of those policies, that's exactly what they're doing.

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