Posted on 04/08/2024 3:41:39 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
While Trump and Netanyahu were close allies for years, the former president turned on the embattled Israel leader after Netanyahu congratulated then-President-elect Biden for winning the 2020 election while Trump was still trying to overturn the results. In interviews for a book about his Middle East peace efforts, Trump, according to its author, used an expletive to describe Netanyahu and said he believed the Israeli leader never really wanted to make peace.
Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary who serves on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said he wished Trump would “let his personal grievances with Bibi, whatever they are, slide for now.”
“I think it’s just a reflection that for Donald Trump, everything is personal,” Fleischer said. “But despite it, I’ll never forget and no one should forget Trump has been good for Israel.” Trump has long said that he did more to support Israel than any previous president, pointing to his decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
Others were less forgiving.
“I think it is another sign that Trump’s impulsiveness plays into the hands of those who are not his friends,” said Erick Erickson, a conservative radio host and Trump critic. “He’s given a propaganda win to a terrorist group. That’s unfortunate.”
White House spokesman Andrew Bates called Trump’s statements “dangerous and unhinged,” while the Israeli communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, told Israel’s Channel 13 that it was “shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens.”
Netanyahu’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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Never trust AP. It is an arm of the Democrat Party.
Dear Erick: It doesn’t matter if Trump says something or not. They will make up stuff out of whole cloth. For example, see the many legal cases against him or the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA media refrain we heard for the first 3 years of his administration.
Politics is personal. Ask McCain or Obama or Pelosi.
Hmmmmm....... Associated Press—— is this in response to the devastating press Bite-me has been racking up with the Jewish voters? Spin, spin, spin..... is Trump is that damned vindictive, why the hell has he never gone after the shade.
+1
5.56mm
AP BS
Bibi knows very well the deep-state runs America, and he thought it smart to congratulate their pretend candidate and puppet as soon as he could
Demonic hit piece. The ONLY critism that President Trump has levied, is that Netenyahu has been too WEAK in fighting the war. And he’s right.
Old atricle
And the Abraham Accords.
I really doubt that President Trump is holding such a huge grudge against Bibi over a congratulatory phone call to Biden.
This smells like the story where Trump supposedly lunged at the steering wheel of his limo on J6 to force his way to the Capitol.
I won’t defend Netanyahu over Trump. Our President is supposed to put this country first.
Nevertrumper Erikson is always a POS.
“White House spokesman Andrew Bates called Trump’s statements “dangerous and unhinged,””
That, after Biden has back-stabbed and undermined Israel every chance he gets?
Trump has spoken about how mad he was at Netanyahu for that several times, to reporters and at rallies.
https://www.axios.com/2021/12/10/trump-netanyahu-disloyalty-fuck-him
I used to admire Bibi, but my opinion changed when he bragged about turning the Israel population into Pfizer guinea pigs.
The global deep state hates him, but he was foolish to fight a halfway war.
I stand with Trump on this.
Mine changed when I found out his "conservative" government enacted a policy to provide "free", taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand to ANY women age 18-to-35 who requested one.
https://www.preciouslife.com/news/71/israel-will-offer-young-women-free-abortions/
Even the most militant pro-abortion lefty in the United States wouldn't dream of getting that enacted, but Bibi's "conservative" government HAPPILY did so.
A lot of FReepers were also shocked to learn that Israeli citizens are "disarmed" and its very difficult for a private citizen to own a firearm over there. They had bought the propaganda about how "Israel arms teachers in the classroom" and so on (armed security police on school grounds are not "teachers")
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