Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke to Christian radio program "Understanding the Times" on Saturday, where she told hosts Jan Markell and Eric Barger that the End Times are upon us.
Bachmann said that President Barack Obama distributed aid to terrorists and that this constituted legitimate and tangible evidence that society has entered its Last Days.
"President Obama waived a ban on arming terrorists in order to allow weapons to go to the Syrian opposition," Bachmann said on Saturday's show. "Your listeners, U.S. taxpayers, are now paying to give arms to terrorists including al-Qaeda.
"This happened, and as of today, the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists," she continued, "Now what this says to me, I'm a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God's end time history."
Right Wing Watch blogger Brian Tashman wrote a response to Bachmann's comments, saying that the Republican member of the House stretched the truth when she accused the President of giving help to terrorist networks.
"The Minnesota congresswoman referred to a decision by the Obama administration to allow vetted Syrian rebels not affiliated with terrorist organizations to help them resist chemical weapons attacks, which was spurred by the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons on civilians," Tashman wrote in his post. "While the administration's move is only related to non-lethal, defensive and protective aid, Bachmann falsely claimed that 'President Obama waived a ban on selling arms to terrorists.'"
But Bachmann, who feels "the baton of global leadership has been passed by America to the Mullahs, the Marxist world, and other dark forces," according to "Understanding the Times," told the radio show hosts that she still has hope for America.
"Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Marana tha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," Bachmann told the interviewers. "When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this: that these days would be as the days of Noah."
