In a social media post, Trump said Israel’s corruption charges against Netanyahu should be dropped.
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President Donald Trump assaulted Israeli prosecutors about the corruption trial facing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the US, who has given Israeli assistance, “cannot stand this.”
Netanyahu was charged in Israel in 2019 with bribery, fraud and trust violations. The trial, which began in 2020, includes three criminal cases. He is scheduled to return for mutual review on Monday after several delays in the Covid-19 pandemic, Israel’s war with Hamas and other regional conflicts.
“How can an Israeli Prime Minister be forced to sit in court all day long in nothing (cigars, bugs dolls, etc.)? It’s a political witch hunt that resembles the witch hunt I was forced to endure,” Trump told a post on the True Society on June 28th.
Netanyahu thanked Trump for his X post, previously known as Twitter.
“Together, we’ll make the Middle East great again!” he said.
Yair Lapid, a leading Israeli opposition leader, criticised Trump’s statement, saying “we should not intervene in the legal process of an independent state.”
Trump said the trial complicates negotiations with both Iran and Hamas. Israel launched its air force on June 13th, and after tensions broke out between Middle Eastern countries, the US targeted several nuclear sites in Iran. Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza on October 7, 2023 and is still hostages, but Israel unleashed the strike on the strip for nearly two years.
Trump also said the ongoing trial would “change” the “winning” by bombing Iran, which the US agreed to a ceasefire after bombing several nuclear enrichment facilities.
“It was the United States that saved Israel, and now it would be the United States that saved Vivi Netanyahu,” Trump said in another post earlier this week. “This tragedy of justice cannot be permitted! ”
