Donald Trump is using his power to bail out Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu from a corruption trial, dismissing it as a ‘witch-hunt’.
The US president – who has made a successful career out of bulldozing over institutions – is now abusing his global platform to diminish Israel’s judiciary.
Brandishing the case against the Israeli prime minister as a ‘witch-hunt’ is also a familiar move – straight from the Republican’s personal playbook -after he himself became a ‘victim’ of one when he was found liable for sex abuse in 2023.
Trump took to Truth Social in his latest tantrum to defend his ally following his military backing of Israel in the war against Iran, in which he attacked three nuclear facilities.
Hailing Netanyahu as a ‘warrior’, he said the ‘ridiculous’ trial comes after the two leaders went ‘through hell together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel.’
The president ranted: ‘I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister!
‘Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land.
‘Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!’
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