Posted on 10/25/2024 3:43:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump expressed support for Israel’s offensives against Hamas and Hezbollah in a recent call with the country’s prime minister — a position that could complicate his campaign’s outreach to Arab Americans claiming he opposes the war.
Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu in one call this month, “Do what you have to do,” according to six people familiar with the conversation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive and confidential information. Trump has said publicly that the two have spoken at least twice in October, with one call as recently as Oct. 19.
“He didn’t tell him what to do militarily, but he expressed that he was impressed by the pagers,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who was on a call this month with Trump and Netanyahu, referring to the Israeli operation that killed Hezbollah leaders with explosive batteries inside pagers. “He expressed his awe for their military operations and what they have done.”
Graham added: “He told them, do what you have to do to defend yourself, but we’re openly talking about a new Mideast. Trump understands that very much there has to be change with the corrupt Palestinian state.”
An adviser to Netanyahu declined to comment.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said: “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, there was historic peace in the Middle East. Now, all of the progress made by President Trump in the region has been broken by the Harris-Biden Administration’s weakness and America Last policies. When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, he will fix the mess Kamala and Biden’s policies created. Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end.”
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“according to six people familiar with the conversation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive and confidential information.”
IOW, six traitors, assuming they even exist and WaPo didn’t just make the whole thing up out of thin air ...
Hatch Act! Hatch Act!
Someone will say this is grounds for impeachment. We had better control the House.
Yes indeed!
That was Trump’s Israel policy when he was president. Do what you need to do and we’ll have your back.
Six people? And those are just the ones who ran to the press. How many total were on the call?
And, was it just a one sentence phone call?
Bibi: Hi Mr. President.
Trump: Do what you have to do.
>>click<<
Was there nothing else discussed?
Just a coincidence? Large explosions in Iran.
https://twitter.com/emilykschrader/status/1849950506359177435
Well there a fresh take right?
Trump’s gonna have to root out these 6 people.
Yep, and I suspect we’ll also start hearing from Democrats again about violations of the Logan Act.
It named Graham.
Israeli attacks against Iran just started. Media will blame this on Trump. “ He gave them the green light. Look Muslim’s in Michigan, you have to vote for CommieLa now!”.
Why can’t President Trump have a private conversation with Netanyahu? Why are other people on the line also?
“ Trump’s gonna have to root out these 6 people.”
It’s interesting. This is not negative information, except in the eyes of leftists and anti-semites.
Did Trump say it’s ok to release the information? Maybe. It’s a positive thing.
But I don’t know and I also wondered about what you bring up.
The writers at the WP are really ticked about their newspaper not endorsing Harris. They are going to be in full on revenge mode at this point.
The ever unreliable, propaganda pushing and democrat mouth piece Wash Post doing what they do best — pushing hit pieces against Trump and Republicans based on anonymous sources
oops, I meant Logan Act.
Exactly
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