Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism, told Newsmax the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night is linked to the appeasement by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden of anti-U.S. and anti-Israel interests.

Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, were gunned down outside the Capitol Jewish Museum after attending an event. The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, 31, reportedly shouted “Free, free Palestine” after Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Milgrim, an American, were shot. He admitted to shooting them, witnesses and D.C. law enforcement said.

“I’ve said this for several years now,” Gorka told “Finnerty” on Thursday night. “I said it on my Newsmax show before I joined the second Trump administration. There is no real political dividing line in America in terms of party politics. I think we can even get away with just jettisoning the labels of Republican and Democrat. The dividing line is between patriots and those who hate America. Ask yourself this question, Rob. Why would a Democrat, President Biden’s former boss, help send staffers to Israel to work in a campaign against the man chosen by that nation as their prime minister? We know what Obama did to [Benjamin] Netanyahu.

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