Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu in one call this month, “Do what you have to do,” according to six people familiar with the conversation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive and confidential information. Trump has said publicly that the two have spoken at least twice in October, with one call as recently as Oct. 19.
“He didn’t tell him what to do militarily, but he expressed that he was impressed by the pagers,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who was on a call this month with Trump and Netanyahu, referring to the Israeli operation that killed Hezbollah leaders with explosive batteries inside pagers. “He expressed his awe for their military operations and what they have done.”
Graham added: “He told them, do what you have to do to defend yourself, but we’re openly talking about a new Mideast. Trump understands that very much there has to be change with the corrupt Palestinian state.”
We are literally in a thread where it’s reported that Trump plans to let Israel do whatever the fuck they want, and you still want to pretend that Harris is somehow the worse choice.
I didn’t say she was the worse choice. I voted for her already.
She should still change her stance on Netanyahu’s genocide. So should the entire pro-genocide centrist wing of the Democratic Party.
Then I suppose we are in agreement.
Not sure why you are in here calling people genocide lovers for pointing that out though.
Lack of braincells does that.
“Harris should change her stance regarding Netanyahu’s genocide” maps 1:1 with trump support, as far as a lot of lemmy is concerned.
People are so invested in their support for genocide that they can’t imagine anyone opposing it in good faith.
I’m not sure how you can make a statement like that and then whine about people assuming bad faith, but you do you.
Get called a trumper enough, you stop giving centrists the benefit of the doubt.
Have you considered that they’ve encountered enough people who only ever seem to criticize Harris and accusing anyone who supports her of loving genocide, and suspiciously avoid saying a word about the other guy, that they, themselves, have stopped giving the benefit of the doubt?
I have. If “you must be a trumper” hadn’t already been the go-to all purpose reply to all deviation from centrist orthodoxy since 2016, your argument might have merit.
Centrists claim trump support in anyone who wants the party to move leftward on any given issue. Centrists exhausted their benefit of the doubt long before the Netanyahu/Biden genocide commenced.
You’re preaching into an echo chamber. If these (totally not bots) people can’t read the writing under their noses, they won’t be swayed by you. They’ll wait until it’s moot and then half-assedly say they were duped, à la, as we saw with Baby Boomers and Reagan.
They’ll just blame the left like they did when Clinton lost.
Gotta keep the Progressive Boogeyman in the back pocket to wave around and scare the children
“They’re going to give you… healthcare and union labor protections! OOOooo spooky”