Fox regular and former Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn during the Trump administration, KT McFarland, wants us to believe designating the Houthis as a terrorist organization literally one day before Trump left office prevented them from attacking the United States.

Here's McFarland on this Saturday's Fox & Friends, being asked about the US/UK retaliatory airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

MCFARLAND: Yeah, and it's so frustrating to watch this, because in the Trump administration Iran wasn't doing this through its proxies. Iran didn't have the money to, because oil prices were low, because we had sanctions on Iranian oil.

And, we had sanctions, we had put the Houthis on the terror watch list, for example, so there was no way these countries and their proxies could attack the United States. And now we're seeing, with the reversal of those policies, that's exactly what they're doing.

The move was widely criticized at the time as reckless and destructive, and something that would do nothing but solidify instability in Yemen and the Gulf—just in time for the incoming Biden administration:

After several months of deliberation, on Monday January 11th, the Trump administration officially designated Yemen’s Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthi militias, as foreign terrorists. This comes amidst heightened concerns of an increasingly erratic President Trump launching a strike on Iran in his final days in office. The potential move was first aired by the US in October, when the Houthis’ official Twitter @almasirahtv was suspended without explanation. At the time, Yemeni journalist Shuaib Almosawa suggested to the author that the most conceivable explanation was that Twitter’s move was in anticipation of a US terror designation of the group. Although the politics behind the terrorist designation are regional and global, its primary effects are on the country of Yemen. Tehran’s military involvement there has grown since the Trump administration reneged on the US’s commitments to the JCPOA nuclear deal in May 2018, setting off a spiral of severe economic turmoil in Iran. The local roots of Yemeni conflict are unfortunately too often lost in the discussions of larger regional and global political dynamics. Below, I trace how three key consequences will ensue from this latest move by the Trump administration, beginning with the situation in Yemen itself.

Trump pretty well outsourced his foreign policy on Yemen to the Saudis, and giving them billions in weapons didn't seem stem the amount of attacks by the Houthis against Saudi assets during his presidency.

There are many on both sides of the aisle upset about the air strikes, but McFarland and the rest of the gang that worked for Trump need to take a seat when it comes to giving advice to the Biden administration.