Trump calls Israeli President Herzog ‘weak and pathetic’ for not pardoning Netanyahu
US President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack Sunday on Israeli President Isaac Herzog, calling him “weak and pathetic” and accusing him of lying about a promise to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu faces long-running domestic corruption charges related to favors and benefits he allegedly received in exchange for regulatory favors, legislative action, and diplomatic support to wealthy businessmen and media moguls.
“He told me many times, more than once, that he would pardon him, and he lied to me,” Trump told Israel’s Channel 14, adding that Herzog was “not a leader.”
He argued that Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial was a distraction from the war effort.
“Bibi needs to focus on the war, not on nonsense,” he said.
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French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC:
• Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards
• I cannot make any purchases
• I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal
• Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated
• A colleague told me my name won’t be removed from the blacklist until Trump’s term ends
• Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded
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