EXCLUSIVE: Top Senate Republican: "Hamas cannot remain in power"

Sen. Tom Cotton tells the Washington Reporter that he is fully aligned with the White House's maximum pressure campaign against the Palestinian terrorists who run Gaza.

As Hamas terrorists play a sadistic game of Lucy and the football with President Donald Trump, one of his top allies in the Senate is making it clear that “Hamas cannot remain in power.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), the Chair of the Senate Republican Conference, told the Washington Reporter on the two-year anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attacks that he joins with “Arkansans in commemorating the more than 1,000 Israelis and Americans who were attacked, brutalized, kidnapped, and murdered two years ago today by Hamas.”

“These attacks,” Cotton, the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, continued, were “the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, [and they] show why Hamas cannot remain in power. The United States has a simple strategic and moral imperative, which is also the best way to rescue the hostages and honor the memory of the lost: back Israel to the hilt.”

Cotton’s policy aligns with that of Trump’s White House; Trump himself issued an ultimatum that Hamas ignored to disarm and release all hostages — living and dead — that is has held for exactly two years.

Following Trump’s demands, Hamas tried to approach his demands as an à la carte menu, which the President of the United States expressly forbade.

Cotton’s remarks to the Reporter suggest that Trump will have the backing he needs from his allies in Congress to continue his pressure campaign against the Palestinian terrorists who run Gaza.