Trump Says Netanyahu Should “Get It Over With”

The Washington Post reports:

When asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday whether he was “100 percent with Israel,” the former president did not give a direct answer but emphasized the optics of the ongoing conflict, saying the country is “losing the PR war.”

“They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down,” Trump said. “And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings … and they don’t like it. And I don’t know why they released, you know, wartime shots like that. … To me, it doesn’t make them look tough.”

Trump said his advice to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be to “get it over with,” and “get back to normalcy.”

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Former president Donald Trump sharpened his criticism of Israel over its actions in Gaza, expressing concerns that Israel is “losing the PR war” with bad optics. “They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down,” he added. https://t.co/2deZv6wLJw

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