Robert Wilkie to Newsmax: Cheer Hostage Return, but Watch Hamas

Although it’s good to celebrate that Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander is being released from Gaza, it’s imperative to realize Hamas is using this as a way to survive, Robert Wilkie told Newsmax on Monday.

The co-chair of the Center for American Security at the America First Policy Institute, who was Veterans Affairs secretary in the first Trump administration, told “Wake Up America” that “we rejoice that a young man is being returned home to his parents … but the sad thing is that if you look at the history of the Hamas death cult, this is another one of the games that they are playing right now. They are playing a game for their survival.”

Wilkie emphasized that Americans need to “always keep an extra eye open, because of the diabolical nature of the Hamas cult.”

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