Bachmann: Obama Supports ‘The Agenda Of Islamic Jihad’ At ‘Every Turn’

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., left, and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, right, vocal conservatives in the GOP challenge to President Obama's immigration order, speak with reporters at the Capitol as the House Republican l... Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., left, and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, right, vocal conservatives in the GOP challenge to President Obama's immigration order, speak with reporters at the Capitol as the House Republican leadership works to muster votes for final passage of the omnibus spending bill to fund the government, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Earlier in the day, conservatives sought to torpedo the measure because it would leave Obama's immigration policy unchallenged, but Speaker John Boehner patrolled the noisy, crowded House floor looking for enough GOP converts to keep it afloat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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The way Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sees it, President Barack Obama has been supporting Islamic jihad “at every turn.”

“And I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the President of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally, Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad,” Bachmann said during an interview on Washington Watch, hosted by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins.

Bachmann’s comments, flagged by Buzzfeed on Wednesday, were referring to a Wall Street Journal report which said that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Obama had exchanged secret letters about fighting the Islamic State.

“Now when in the world — and by that, I mean the goals of the Islamic State, the fact that they want their own state,” Bachmann said. “Our president, we know now, is writing secret notes to the Ayatollah in Iran; there’s a recent report that the President is trying to have private meetings with the Ayatollah in Iran. Iran is very clear about their goal — their goal is to have a nuclear weapon. They’ve said, unequivocally, they will use it against the United States and against Israel.”

Listen to Bachmann below:

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  1. Avatar for marby marby says:

    “The stupid” desperately trying for some relevance as her congressional career ends. It isn’t even a questionable ideology - her actual sentences are incoherent. How could Minnesota ever have elected her?

  2. Outgoing word salad with a nutty dressing.

  3. Well, that pic just about ruined, well, you know.
    I need a brain wash and my eyes scraped clean. lol
    Can’t believe anyone would stoop as low as this to consider it newsworthy.
    Slow day Daniel???

  4. That must be the reason America’s economy is ahead of every other western nation these days, even after Bush and company almost destroyed America with their wars financed on a credit card and bringing on the collapse of the economy before leaving office. Obama saved the nation, Obama is such a failure as an Islamic jihadist.

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