The left just can’t help itself. President Trump negotiates an unprecedented peace deal between Israel and Hamas—something the Biden administration failed to achieve—and instead of simply acknowledging the historic nature of it, Democrats and their media allies have launched an all-out spin campaign.
Ever since the deal’s announcement, Democrats have twisted themselves in pretzels trying to downplay Trump’s success. Some claimed that Biden's term laid the groundwork, while others inflated Biden's hostage release record. One particularly laughable example came from Chris Jackson, a loyal Biden booster who posted that Biden “worked tirelessly for months, got a ceasefire and quietly freed 140 hostages.” He then accused Trump of “letting Netanyahu shatter that peace,” freeing only 28, and “repackaging Biden’s peace plan as his own.” This is the sort of delusion you can only find inside the echo chambers of social media and the legacy press.
Let’s get the facts straight. During Joe Biden’s presidency, his principal duty relating to the conflict was clear: Get American hostages home. On Dec. 13, 2023, the families of eight Americans believed to be held in Gaza at the time met with Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the White House. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, who spoke on behalf of those families, came out of that meeting saying the administration “only reinforced that they are willing and ready to do all that they possibly can… to get the hostages home.” That quote captured the hope families were clinging to—that the president would act, not dither.
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But all that talk never turned into meaningful results. The last American hostage freed under Biden’s watch was a four-year-old girl named Abigail Edan—in November 2023. The public was told this was a humanitarian breakthrough, though the circumstances tell a different story. Abigail just happens to be the great-niece of Liz Hirsh Naftali, a major Democratic donor, a Biden appointee, and, conveniently, one of Hunter Biden’s “art” buyers. It doesn’t take much imagination to wonder if political connections greased the wheels for that particular release while countless other families were left waiting and wondering.
After that? Nothing. For two long years, Biden’s team kept repeating the same talking points about “working around the clock” without ending the conflict or securing the release of more hostages. Despite the Biden administration’s initial efforts, hostages languished for more than two years because it failed to free them.
And when it comes to freeing American hostages worldwide, it’s not even close.
“President Donald Trump’s administration has secured the release of more than 70 U.S. hostages held by foreign governments since taking office in January, according to the State Department,” reports Fox News Digital. “The Trump administration has emphasized arranging the release of U.S. hostages under his second administration, including Marc Fogel, a U.S. history teacher who had been detained in Russia since 2021, and Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old American–Israeli who spent nearly 600 days as a hostage after Hamas abducted him after its initial attack on Israel. “
A total of 72 U.S. citizens have been released since Trump's inauguration in January, according to the State Department's Office of Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.
Since then, another hostage release occurred in September when U.S. citizen Amir Amiry was released from wrongful detainment in Afghanistan.
By comparison, former President Joe Biden said in 2024 his White House secured the release of more than 70 hostages during his four years in office, according to an August 2024 statement.
Trump claimed to have helped release 58 in his first term as president.
The peace deal between Israel and Hamas didn’t come from recycled memos or half-hearted diplomacy. It came from leadership. The same leadership that Biden failed to show when Americans were being held hostage abroad, begging their government to care. The same leadership the media now refuses to credit because it undermines their narrative that the world was somehow safer under Biden.
Democrats can spin, distort, and deflect all they want, but it won’t change the truth. President Trump accomplished what his predecessors couldn’t — peace, strength, and real results. No amount of revisionist history from the left will erase that.
