How the Biden and Trump teams worked together to get the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal done

[ificandream]

Source: CNN

By Kevin Liptak, Michael Williams, Nikki Carvajal, Alayna Treene and Arlette Saenz, CNN
Updated 8:02 PM EST, Wed January 15, 2025

Washington
CNN
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When Qatar’s prime minister emerged Wednesday to declare — at long last — that a ceasefire-for-hostage deal had been struck in Gaza, representatives for two American administrations were on hand in Doha to bask in the victory.

The cooperation between the two was “almost unprecedented,” a senior Biden administration official said after the deal was clinched, made possible by a rare intersection of interests between bitter rivals who both saw an opening following Trump’s victory.

Brett McGurk, the longtime Middle East negotiator for President Joe Biden, had been planted in the Qatari capital for weeks in the hopes of a final agreement. He was joined in recent days by President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, for the final push.

At points, McGurk and Witkoff divvied up meetings across the Middle East to push the deal across the line, including critical talks between Witkoff and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that McGurk joined by phone. If McGurk was focused primarily on the parameters of the deal, Witkoff was on hand to emphasize Trump’s desire to see a deal finished by Inauguration Day.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/politics/biden-trump-gaza-ceasefire-deal/index.html

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I hate seeing even a small part of this agreement credited to Trump.

[msongs]

1. not surprising but guess who is not sharing any credit nt

[kelly1mm]

2. President Biden had to involve President Trump and get buy-in from him in order for this long

process to have any chance of success. President Biden will not be in office in 5 days and can't bind future administrations.

[unblock]

3. Seems he was largely there just to be able to take credit.

[PortTack]

6. Ding ding ding

[yorkster]

4. Would love to know what Whitkoff said to

Netanyahu. Read somewhere today that they met during the last few days.

[LymphocyteLover]

11. all I've heard is he passed on the "hell to pay" comment from tRump... whatever that means

seems like there already has been hell, so not sure what he meant

[rampartd]

5. trump wprked with netanyahu to keep this going until trump's inaugeration

prove i am wrong.

cnn = trump propaganda

[PortTack]

7. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[Kaleva]

8. It is up to you to provide evidence to support your claim

"A "prove me wrong" argument is a logical fallacy where someone makes a claim without providing evidence and then challenges others to disprove it, essentially shifting the burden of proof onto the person questioning the claim, rather than providing their own justification for it; it's essentially an "appeal to ignorance" fallacy where the lack of evidence against a claim is used to support its truth."

It's kind of like requiring a defendant at a trial to prove that the prosecution's charges are false.

[ificandream]

9. CNN had nothing to do with this. They only report the facts.

As for Trump working with Netanyahu, I have no doubt he used his leverage here. But CNN had no propaganda.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. I have no doubt this is true

[drmeow]

13. Starting before election day nt

[LymphocyteLover]

10. I was very disappointed to hear Tommy Vietor of the Pod Save crew give credit to tRump for making threats that helped

push the negotiations over the edge to succeeding.


God, I can barely stand to listen to them anymore.


That being said, I guess it's a general opinion that Trump helped the deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/15/israel-hamas-ceasefire-biden-trump/