A former special envoy to Haiti blames what he views as former President Joe Biden’s absentee approach to decision-making for the current woes afflicting the Caribbean nation.

Daniel Foote served as special envoy to Haiti in 2021 but resigned in protest over what he said was the administration’s failed approach of supporting unpopular and unelected leaders.

«All of the governments that the U.S. has backed or anointed or imposed in the last 110 years have not represented the Haitian people,» Foote said. He said the Biden administration backed the then-unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry solely for his unwavering loyalty despite lingering questions about how Henry rose to power.

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Foote has been involved with Haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. He now believes the country has descended into near-total collapse.

«It’s a thousand times worse now because we broke whatever weak social contract there was between the people and the government. And there has been no government since basically 2012. It’s a failed state.»

A recent U.N. report revealed that more than 1 million people have been displaced due to gang violence in Haiti, nearly 10% of the population. Another report indicated that 85% of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is under gang control.

Foote said he never met Biden while serving as envoy, claiming that by then, Biden had «deteriorated to the point that they didn’t want him to see a lot of people.» Instead, he said, Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of state for political affairs, and U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Michele Sison devised the plan to support Henry.

Foote said he recalled a remark that Biden allegedly made as a senator in 1994: «If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean, or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests.»

«That explains Joe Biden’s approach to Haiti,» Foote said.

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Police stop a motorist in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Biden’s spokesperson and Sison did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.

Nuland rejected Foote’s accusations, calling them «completely false» and referred Fox News Digital to former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols.

«What I observed that there was intense coordination, and there was not one person or two people who would make a significant decision on the policy,» Nichols said, noting that he got the job roughly a week before Foote resigned on Sept. 21 and so was not involved in earlier decisions. «All issues were debated extensively internally at multiple levels, all the way up to the principals, that’s the Cabinet secretary level.»

Foote said that in the past he felt no need for security while walking around Haiti because Americans were widely welcomed. Things are not the same anymore.

«Now the Haitians are looking at China, looking at Russia,» he said. «They’re like, ‘Somebody help us. The Americans just keep screwing us over,’ yet they still want the Americans to help them.»

A member of the G9 and Family gang patrols a roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 11. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

The Biden administration committed around $600 million to fund an international security force, known as the multinational security support mission (MSS), composed of personnel from countries like Bangladesh, Kenya, Chad and Guyana. But Foote said he sees the MSS strategy as a waste of taxpayer money.

«They don’t have the security backbone to take on the gangs,» he said. «They need help. And that help is not 5,000 random police officers from a mishmash of 10 different developing countries led by the Kenyans, who have never led a security mission in history.»

Police from Kenya stand on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Marckinson Pierre)

Nichols defended the MSS, declaring their efforts «incredibly heroic.»

«Having seen them on the ground in Haiti, it’s an extremely professional force, extremely courageous and one committed to the mission,» he said.

Foote recommends that President Donald Trump send 60 U.S. special forces personnel to train an elite anti-gang unit in Haiti and reestablish a signals intelligence program to monitor gang communication. Without such action, he said, the consequences would extend far beyond Haiti’s borders.

«It’s just going to continue to create chaos right off the U.S. shores and create a massive surge in migration,» he said. «Because if you walk down the street in Port-au-Prince, you look around and think, ‘I can understand why people leave. Humans can’t live in these conditions.’»

President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Jack Brewer, who played in the NFL before founding a global foundation that has been in Haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquakes, echoed Foote’s assessment.

«People are being burned alive, police officers are getting their heads bashed into the pavement – bloody, torturous deaths,» Brewer said. «One of my doctors had five of his close friends and relatives murdered. This all just happened this week.»

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Brewer said that any real change can come only from within Haiti.

«I’m talking about a culture that doesn’t accept stealing and doesn’t accept corruption,» he said. «Right now, culturally, it’s acceptable to steal, and that has to change. Until you fix the moral fabric of a nation and reinstate law and order, it doesn’t matter what America does.»

Hamas has claimed responsibility for rockets fired at Israel on Thursday.

«This launch is the resistance’s first response to the zionist entity’s violation of the ceasefire, which resulted over 710 martyrs in the last three days. It also comes after the IOF’s renewed ground invasion into Beit Lahia this morning, and the failure of the mediators and the world to curb the IOF’s aggression,» according to reports.

Strikes launched by Israel killed at least 58 Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday, according to hospitals via the Associated Press.

The Jewish State resumed attacks across Gaza earlier this week, breaking a ceasefire, which reportedly killed over 400 Palestinians – mostly women and children – on Tuesday, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

Israel’s military indicated that it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels early Thursday before it entered Israel’s airspace, the AP reported.

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«Hamas refused offer after offer to release our hostages. In the past two weeks, Israel did not initiate any military action, in the hope that Hamas would change course. Well, that didn’t happen. While Israel accepted the offer of President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Hamas flatly refused to do so,» Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video shared to X on Tuesday. «This is why I authorized yesterday, the renewal of military action against Hamas.»

«Israel does not target Palestinian civilians. We target Hamas terrorists,» he declared. «And when these terrorists embed themselves in civilian areas, when they use civilians as human shields, they’re the ones who are responsible for all unintended casualties.»

Israel launched its war on Hamas in response to the terrorist group’s heinous attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., a staunch supporter of Israel, continued to express his support while visiting the foreign nation this week.

«Hamas does not want peace. I unapologetically, 100% stand with Israel, and demand the release of all remaining hostages. Sending this from Israel,» Fetterman said on X on Tuesday.

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., said on X on Wednesday, «Hamas could end this war right now if it released the hostages held in Gaza. It could’ve done so months ago, but instead it’s brought devastation by prolonging this conflict. America must lead the world in pressuring Hamas to end this war and bring the hostages home.»

Malaysia’s government gave final approval for a Texas-based company to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 more than a decade after the airplane’s disappearance. 

Terms and conditions of a «no-find, no fee» contract have been agreed upon with Ocean Infinity to launch a seabed search operation at a new 5,800-square-mile site, according to Transport Minister Anthony Loke. The company will be paid $70 million only if wreckage is discovered. 

«The government is committed to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of the passengers of flight MH370,» Loke said in a statement. 

The 2014 disappearance remains one of the most vexing mysteries in aviation. The Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur headed to Beijing on March 8, 2014, and disappeared around 90 seconds after leaving Malaysian airspace with all 239 of its passengers seemingly gone without a trace. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed. 

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Ocean Infinity declined comment when reached by Fox News Digital Thursday morning. It told Fox News last year that it hoped «to narrow the search area down to one in which success becomes potentially achievable.» 

An expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues to MH370’s location, although debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing, although CEO Oliver Punkett earlier this year reportedly said the company had improved its technology since then. 

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Ocean Infinity became best known for its work trying to locate wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean in 2014 with 239 passengers on board.  (Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Loke said his ministry will ink a contract with Ocean Infinity soon but didn’t provide details on the terms. The firm reportedly sent a search vessel to the site and indicated in December that January-April is the best period for the search. 

«While the next of kin of the passengers and crew on board attempt to rebuild our lives, the threat to global aviation safety remains a live issue,» Voice370, a group of relatives of passengers from MH370, previously said in a statement. 

Co-Pilot, Flying Officer Marc Smith looks out as he turns his Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft at low level in bad weather while searching for missing Malaysia Airways Flight MH370 on March 24, 2014, off the southwest coast of Perth, Australia.  (Richard Wainwright/Pool/Getty Images)

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«As long as we remain in the dark about what happened to MH370, we will never be able to prevent a similar tragedy. Accordingly, we believe that it is a matter of paramount importance that the search for MH370 is carried out to its completion.» 

Fox News’ Greg Palkot, Peter Aitken and the Associated Press contributed to this report.