Top Biden aide pushes back after Trump team claims credit for Lebanon ceasefire

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is pushing back on the incoming Donald Trump administration for taking credit for the Lebanon ceasefire coming together.

“I would just point out that you know you’ve done a really good thing when other people take credit for it,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says in a CNN interview.

The comments come after Trump’s pick to serve as his national security adviser, Representative Mike Waltz, in a posting on X said his boss is the reason the two sides reached the long-sought-after agreement.

“Everyone is coming to the table because of President Trump,” Waltz noted.

Sullivan says the deal came together because Israel achieved its military objectives in Lebanon and the stakeholders in Lebanon didn’t want war anymore. He also credits the “relentless American diplomacy” of Biden and White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein.

Sullivan also confirms that he had briefed Waltz on the negotiations as they unfolded.