cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35636163
the full interview transcript is here (archive)
the part of it about israel
REESE: A different war, Israel, a March Pew Poll, found that 53% of surveyed U.S. adults had an unfavorable view of Israel, that’s down – or that is up from 42% in 2022. Among young Republicans under 50, 50% have an unfavorable view of Israel. That’s up from 35% in 2022. There’s a growing group within the MAGA, America First coalition, Republicans, especially younger Republicans, who are skeptical of our support for Israel. Are you aware of this group? Are you worried about it?
TRUMP: Yeah I’m aware of it. So, Israel is amazing, because, you know, I have good support from Israel. I have. Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing out. We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before. You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say ‘well, maybe it wasn’t complete,’ and it turned out totally complete, beyond complete. But when, if you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing.
There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it. You’re too young to know this, but if you go back 15 years, probably that’s when it started, right. Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that. And people, they forgot about October 7th. You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day, because I’ve seen the pictures.
REESE: I was just over in Israel, and we went right up to the war where you could hear the bombs dropping in Gaza. And we went to the places from October 7th. Scary. Being in it. I understand —
TRUMP: It was a really bad one, right?
REESE: Yeah.
TRUMP: And you know, you have people that deny it ever happened, they’re deniers. You have people that deny the Holocaust ever happened. So, they’re gonna have to get that war over with. But it is hurting Israel. There’s no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress.
(Some) People are up in arms about Russian meddling in the west, but Israel has been doing it since the 40’s and no one batted an eyelash.
The fact that some (many?) Jewish lawmakers and military are allowed to have dual Israeli/US citizenship is baffling to me.
The Nevada Attorney general who let that Israeli paedophile leave the US is literally an Israeli. It’s unbelievable how much control they have
You know who controls the you know what.
Japan was worse than the Nazis during World War 2, but its victims didn’t spend generations convincing the world of its atrocities.
Reading the transcript gave me cancer.
The transcript. You know, it’s the best transcript in human history, i just saw it yesterday. And my administration, they tell me they’ve never seen such a great transcript. Truly marvellous. I’ve probably created the best transcript in history.
It’s the interviewer kissing and then firmly lodging his lips inside Trump’s ass aa much as Trump itself
Epstein files or gtfo
“Now it only has ALMOST total control”
Nope, sorry, Israel isn’t going to be enough of a distraction from all the
Child Rape.
The two subjects are one and the same. Epstein was an Israeli honeypot. But that is surely the tip of the iceberg. Our own intelligence agencies presumably helped them too.
We need all new leadership.
They are probably involved. Maxwells father had known ties with Mossad, a former Israeli prime minister had lived at Epsteins place for a couple weeks and raped children with him. Recently the head of Israeli cybersecurity tried to groom a minor to rape her in Las Vegas…
Epstein used to take private jet flights with israeli spy chiefs to israel and back, it is not much of a secret anymore, even the reactionary right realize it now.
Since what time?
Lol
How many voted no in last vote about aid to israel?
58 in the House…
It’s not huge, but it’s substantial and certainly an improvement.
Last time the House stalled Biden went around them breaking multiple US and international laws. trump won’t do that unless Israel pays him personally a lot of money
So trump actually is right here, Israel lost total control over US Congress. Having a sitting president willing to circumvent Congress to provide arms for a genocide is pretty “total”, and they no longer have that.
It wasn’t a single issue vote or Congress would have just approved it.
It also didn’t break U.S. laws, it’s the bullshit emergency bypass that Trump keeps doing for everything
And then you say that Trump won’t do it unless Israel pays him but the way he is behaving makes it seem like they are considering he is taking funding from school over not crushing pro Palestine protests and is calling it anti semitism
Biden fucking sucked for the people of Gaza but it’s only gotten worse since Trump was made president
