Posted on 11/02/2021 8:36:03 AM PDT by MNDude
Ex-US president reiterates claim that before he left office, countries were 'lining up' to join Abraham Accords; laments lack of support for him from US Jews.
The biggest change I’ve seen in Congress is Israel literally owned Congress — you understand that — 10 years ago, 15 years ago. And it was so powerful. It was so powerful. And today it’s almost the opposite,” Trump said.
“You have between AOC (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and [Rep. Ilhan] Omar — and these people that hate Israel. They hate it with a passion — they’re controlling Congress, and Israel is not a force in Congress anymore. I mean, it’s just amazing. I’ve never seen such a change,” he continued.
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Bad choice of language. “Israel was important to Congress” would be more suitable. Something like that.
Wouldn’t it be better if citizens of the United States owned our congress?
I believe he is deliberately drawing attention to the problem.
I don’t think this came out the way Trump meant it.
China, Russia, and the Saudis have trillions available to buy members of congress. Those three control far more of them than Israel ever could.
Yeah I see that. Still think it’s a little counter-productive. You just know they’re going to call him an anti-semite for saying it.
Perhaps a little context is in order?
Yeah, I know. That's crazy talk.
Bruh
Democrat Jew haters: “Trump is an antisemite!”
I listened to it, he sounded clear to me. Thinks Israel running Congress is a good thing, not exactly America First.
You'll regret this whole strategy of selling out the U.S. to foreign interests when it's Muslims doing the buying.
It’s neither. It’s been the Chinese for more than two decades. At least since the Clintons.
If the squad currently owned Congress, the iron dome funding would not have sailed though.
As misstatements go (by that I mean the tenor of it, the potential misconstruing of it), this one is right up there with “Fox news isn’t working for me any more”.
We all knew what he meant; but we trust the media to do what they do; they start a fire with it and keep adding gasoline.
Some of us believe that what happens to Israel is prophetic. And the US’ support of Israel and the Jews during recent history has made God favorable towards the United States.
Think he’s giving these 3 too much credit. They’d deserve a medal if they could stop congress control by any foreign country.
A disturber of the excrement. Gotta love him. The Joo haters are now in congress for everyone to see and hear during their fashion-statement announcements. What does Trump get out of it? The Jooz still vote left and give the GOP 25% of their votes.
Conservative Joo pundits-do you take them with a grain of salt while they get rich like the justice brothers?
I agree there. Just look at Iron Dome vote. Israel has plenty of influence. Trump is wrong.
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