The Republican presidential candidate ridiculously claimed that Biden is "trying to hold" Bibi back, as the Israeli prime minister continued to ruthlessly bomb Lebanon and Gaza.

“He’s doing a good job,” Trump saidabout the Israeli leader. “Biden is trying to hold him back, just so you understand, Biden is more superior to the VP. He’s trying to hold him back, and he probably should be doing the opposite, actually. I’m glad that Netanyahu decided to do what he had to do, but it’s moving along pretty good.”

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    8 hours ago

    It’s one of the reasons he has been stalling on ceasefire talks - the war is the only thing keeping him in power.

    I may be wrong about this, but I think I remember reading something last year about him being in legal trouble but there’s a law that stops him from being prosecuted if the country is involved in “military operations?”

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        4·
        8 hours ago

        July 9, 2024.

        Hmmm… I’m no calendarologist but it seems to me that October is after July…

        Thanks for the link! They didn’t mention anything about the law I thought existed so I guess that’s not a thing.

        • geekwithsoulOPEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          Yeah, this trial has been going on forever. Looks like he has to testify in early December (his lawyers had wanted to push off until March next year)

          This is an archive of the best article I could find - basically his lawyers had used the war as an excuse for the delay, but that didn’t fly.

          https://archive.ph/v1V0j