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Former President Donald Trump agreed to an interview on the primary anniversary of the horrific bloodbath and mass kidnapping in Israel on October 7, 2023. The main focus was totally on Israel after all, but additionally on the explosion of antisemitism in the USA.
There have been three key exchanges. (The whole transcript is here.)
The primary alternate:
HH: Now Mr. President, once we spoke in April, you stated to me that Israel wanted to win and win shortly. They’re successful, however they’re nonetheless combating, and so they’re now combating in Lebanon. Do you assume Biden and Harris have been holding again Israel from successful?
DT: I do. I feel every part they do is the alternative. Particularly, him. Now she’s a dumber particular person than him, however he has the worst international coverage of anyone in historical past, most likely. You already know what you do with him? I spotted it the opposite day. You possibly can be one of many biggest international coverage presidents. All you do is hearken to what he says and do the alternative. Should you’ve performed the alternative for 30 years with this poor man, this poor, pathetic man, in the event you’ve performed the alternative for 30 years, you’ll have been profitable. However he’s by no means gotten it proper. And you realize, I don’t have to return into the outdated secretaries of state and all of the those that speak about it.
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The second alternate:
HH: If Israel hits [Iran’s] nuclear websites, will you applaud?
DT: Yeah. I handled Kim Jong-un. And he has nuclear weapons. And also you have a tendency to talk somewhat bit otherwise after they have nuclear weapons.
HH: Sure.
DT: Does that make sense to you?
HH: Sure, it does. Effectively, Nixon met with Mao, who was the best assassin of the twentieth Century, as a result of that they had nukes. He met with Brezhnev.
DT: Proper.
HH: I seen you didn’t meet with Khamenei, and he didn’t have nukes. Can they be allowed to have nukes?
DT: No, they will’t have nukes. No, they will’t have nukes. Nukes, in the event you would see the ability of those weapons that I renovated and rebuilt at nice price, I rebuilt the entire navy. After which, you realize, they gave $85 billion of it away to the Taliban and to Afghanistan. Are you able to think about? They gave $85 billion {dollars} away. They gave every part. That is the worst group of individuals, these are the worst negotiators in historical past.
Alternate three:
HH: Let me flip to antisemitism in the USA. Your daughter is Jewish. A few of your grandchildren are Jewish. Your son-in-law is Jewish. Jewish college students will not be protected on many American campuses. Your alma mater, my alma mater, Biden and Harris have ignored this. I imply, they actually have ignored it. Should you’re president, will you ship the DOJ to these campuses, the workplace of Civil Rights from the Division of Schooling to implement the regulation?
DT: 100%. I imply, the regulation is being damaged. 100%. You wouldn’t assume you’d even have this. Did you ever assume two years in the past, three years in the past, that you just’d ever have this dialogue?
HH: No, I didn’t.
DT: I’m unbelievable what’s occurring. And while you see these riots, and also you see lots of people, too. However you realize, a number of the individuals in that, a number of these persons are Jewish individuals. You already know that. They’re Jewish children.
HH: Oh, yeah. There are some outliers, however most Jewish college students are afraid to be overt on locations like Harvard and Penn.
DT: Yeah, however then you’ve different Jewish college students which might be afraid. Yeah, that’s true, and they need to be afraid. I by no means thought I’d see this in my life with the campus riots and what they’re saying and what they’re doing. They usually must put them down shortly. They actually must put them down shortly.
Some pro-Israel People would favor that zero consideration be given to the outliers, however as the superb Commentary Journal podcast sometimes mentions the insidiousness of Jewish Americans attacking Israel and defending, implicitly and even explicitly, Hamas, then it shouldn’t be surprising when the previous president notices it too.
I spotlight these three exchanges as a result of the lead to November’s election will reverberate world wide however most particularly in Israel.
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It appears clear to me {that a} President Kamala Harris would be the least supportive American president of the Jewish State in Israel’s 76-year historical past.
Against this, the argument is strong that Trump in his first time period was no less than the equal of any earlier president relating to a file of assist for Israel in peacetime. (Richard Nixon ordering the Pentagon to “ship every part that may fly” to Israel in an arms resupply in the course of the 1973 Yom Kippur Battle is the only real instance of when an American president stepped up at a second of existential peril to Israel and does every part to assist it in need of sending American forces. Trump didn’t face such a alternative in his first time period, however would possibly very properly in a second if Iran crosses the nuclear threshold.)
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The selection needs to be clear for any American who helps Israel and for whom the continued existence and vibrancy of the Jewish State and the Center East writ giant is a precedence: They need to vote for Trump.
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