President Donald Trump is returning to a deterrence-through-strength policy when it comes to the Houthi terrorists, Alex Wong told Newsmax on Monday, adding that Trump is going to end their “capability” and break their “will.”
Wong, White House principal deputy national security adviser, joined “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” to speak to the Trump administration’s order of strikes on Houthi positions over the weekend after the Iran-backed terrorists owned up to firing on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier group.
“Look, the president is prosecuting, together with our brave men and women in uniform, an operation here to restore deterrence, restore freedom of navigation, and make it clear and restore the principle that if you shoot at Americans, if you shoot at American ships, if you shoot at American planes, you’re dead,” Wong said. “That was a principle that [former] President [Joe] Biden backed off on when the Houthis began these attacks after Oct. 7 in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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