“Rubio said he will pressure member states to withdraw from the institution, sanction organizations that work with the court and ban staff from traveling to the United States. Countries that “enjoy the benefits of the U.S. security umbrella” will be called upon to reject the court’s jurisdiction over U.S. citizens”.
this is another:
“Trump’s administration already has brought sanctions against Khan and a dozen other ICC staff in retaliation for warrants the court has issued for top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the war in Gaza and investigations into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.
“Karim Khan believed that by launching a political witch hunt against Israel and issuing a politically motivated arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu, the world would ignore the grave sexual misconduct allegations against him. He was wrong,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said in a statement”.
I’m thinking Mamdani is using this same tactic, inspired by this move and it is now backfiring in both.
Remember the unsourced reports claiming that Trump yelled at Netanyahu regarding Iran, saying that if it wasn’t for him Bibi would be in jail. That makes it sound like Trump is covering for Bibi’s crimes. But just like Trump’s pardoning of the J6ers and the attempt to have his own lawsuit earnings from the IRS used to compensate people subjected to criminal lawfare, Trump would actually have been protecting Bibi from the same lawless crap Trump suffered under for years right here in the US.
The lawless thugs are absolutely consistent, and Trump’s response is absolutely consistent.