Republican rivals of former President Donald Trump have lashed out at the GOP front-runner for telling a story about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which put him in a negative light and suggested he’s ‘weak’ at a sensitive moment.
It happened Wednesday night at a campaign rally. Trump was recounting the events and hours leading up to his decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a 2020 drone strike outside the Baghdad airport. Trump told a cheering crowd that the Israeli prime minister “let us down” by backing out of participation in the covert operation at the last minute. Watch:
Trump: (killing Iran’s Soleimani)
I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing.
He tried to take credit for and it didn’t make me feel too good. pic.twitter.com/03viq8Kz8E
— Clash Report (@clashreport) October 12, 2023
Trump also controversially said this week Israeli leaders need to “step up their game” as Netanyahu “was not prepared” for the deadly Saturday raid into southern Israel. He further called Hezbollah “very smart” while generally urging Israel to be more prepared and efficient. He had at one point called Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant a “jerk”.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, chief among Trump’s 2024 rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, blasted the somewhat impulsive words, saying “Now is not the time to be attacking our ally,” – especially as the Israeli bodies and missing are still being counted.
DeSantis also admitted that while “there’s a lot of people that generally like Trump’s policies,” they are not “big fans” of his behavior, in a swipe at the story about Soleimani’s death.
But it was Chris Christie, also in the 2024 race, who went even more on the attack, calling Trump “a fool”.
“Only a fool would make those kinds of comments. Only a fool would give comments that give aid and comfort to Israel’s adversary in this situation, and he always places it in the context of himself,” the former New Jersey governor said.
The context for Trump not liking Bibi. Bibi left Trump hanging in front of everyone ahead of the election … pic.twitter.com/cM3sSLpqmp
— NEWS MAKER (@NEWS_MAKER) October 13, 2023
“This is someone who cares not about the American people, not about the people of Israel, but he cares about one person and one person only: The person he sees in the mirror when he wakes up in the morning,” Christie continued. “As a Republican Party, we cannot once again nominate a fool like this to be our nominee and get him anywhere near the presidency of the United States.”
Jewish groups also weren’t happy:
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.”
And here’s Trump’s own former Vice President weighing in…
Mike Pence blasts Donald Trump for criticizing Netanyahu and calling Hezbollah smart: “I found the former president’s comments to be reckless and irresponsible…Hezbollah is not very smart. They’re evil.” pic.twitter.com/rJjoEVRYaJ
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) October 13, 2023
Journalist Max Blumenthal offered his opinion on Trump’s words, saying “Every US President has hated Netanyahu, regarding him as a conniving fanatic. But only Trump said out loud what Obama was overheard saying on a hot mic and Clinton said in private.”
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No matter how you feel about Trump, I think we can all agree that DeSantis, Christie, Haley and Pence are all sacks of shit.
Sorry sacks of shit.
EVERY political is a lying, self centered and corrupt. sack of shit.
prove me wrong
You are wrong and it needs no proof! Political is not a human being. When was the last time you saw or even filled a sack with excrement?
You’re a fucking moron. Fuck off, nigger.
The Republican ticket will be Pence / Haley. Then the election will get cancelled with a martial law declaration after the bond market collapses.
They will need to shut the country down again to quell the hyperinflation that results from printing trillions more in liquidity to the investment banks and bond insurers. The other half of the bailouts is demand destruction to balance the hyperinflation and get just plain old bad inflation.
They can’t do another pandemic to shut down the economy after the bond market collapses, so they will foment some kind of massive civil unrest probably with the millions of illegal aliens they have brought across the border for a reason. Martial law will force everyone to stay home, will even shut down Amazon deliveries, and ensure demand is totally destroyed as they print $30 – 50 trillion this time.
It buys then time and gives them the excuse to launch the digital ID, ration everything to destroy demand for everything, put UBI in place as there will be no jobs left, and issue the CBDC. Once everyone is locked in to the system, they’ll lift martial law just long enough to release another bio-weapon and since everyone has their digital ID and can’t get UBI or food without it, they will launch the final vaccination / depopulation program.
IQ test ended this year. Test of Resolution is coming.
Ahem – how exactly can the [US] bond market collapse?
If needed, the Fed will buy up all bonds on offer, with freshly “printed” dollars.
What sort of creepy bastard brags about luring a leader to a peace conference and then assassinating him ?
Hey buddy. come over to my turf and lets us have a peace pow wow and stop da’ killing. You’re safe passage is guaranteed ….really …you got Uncle Schlomo’s word on that , bruh…smh.
Netanyahu was right to back out. I wouldn’t want my name on that contemptible deed , either.
I wasn’t aware of how it went down. If that is the case, it is shameful and as the brits would say “bad form”.
but but but lower gas prices when the chameleon was in office.
I want lower gas prices, who cares about red flag laws, lock downs, increased military spending, big beautiful vax saving millions. Just make gas cheap again.
It’s funny you think it’s all about gasoline!
It’s also about Diesel!
Dude… Its oozing sarcasm.
/s
feel better now??
Yes. Sorry. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
That poison you call a vax has not saved anyone.
President Donald Trump has been accused of committing a war crime after claims that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was lured to Iraq, where he was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike on Friday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi stated that he was due to meet the elite Quds force commander after he landed in Baghdad for talks that had been agreed to at Trump’s request.
Abdul-Mahdi told the Iraqi parliament on Sunday that Soleimani entered the country with a response to a Saudi Arabian proposal to de-escalate the volatile situation between the two countries. He said that Trump had called for his assistance in mediating with the Gulf kingdom, which views Iran as its main regional rival, blaming it for attacks on its oil refineries earlier this year.
yep, that was the single stupidest thing trumpo done
You’re naive beyond hope.
Trump, you retard!
Only a fool would give comments that boast about killing Soleimani in this situation.
(This brings back memories… it was the killing of Soleimani on US-controlled Baghdad airport [i.e. they could have easily captured him instead], which pushed me over the edge and made me decide to leave the US asap, and for good. In a weird way, I have to thank Orange Leader for it.)
There is no honor among the servants of Satan and never will be.
WAAAATTT!!!
c’mon man, tRump is just playing 247D chess. Has’m all fooled.
You need to tell us how Rump caused all “vaxx” deaths, as without him none of that would have happened!!!
(And the Hamas uprising is Trump’s fault too!)
Ignore them. They blame him for everything from the Civil War to the Great Fire of London. It’s the Democrat coping mechanism as their policies destroy civilization.
He didn’t deserve capture.
All preplanned, scripted business as usual political theater. Nothing is by mistake or left to change with these parasites. Trying to make Trump appear a maverick.
I always love when Christie the Hutt crawls out from under his rock to lecture us! He’s like a chronic disease with a 4-year cycle.
They’re all fucking tools. Not one of them untainted.
I thank Trump for what he has done and for what he has said at least you know where he stands and what he thinks of the Israel leader and he was still able to work with him. As for the jerks that are running against him I think Fat ass Christie is just a east coast corrupt pos .As for Pence what a back stabber he has turned out to be I will say this if they nominate either one of those bastards to run for the republican side I will vote for Robert Kennedy .
Trump is so often merely a bellowing, belligerent baboon buffoon, jealous when anyone else gets a headline
Once again Trump is right. Netanyahu is a war criminal on the scale of Hitler. He deserves to be tried and hung for crimes against humanity.