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JERUSALEM — Former President Donald Trump earlier this twelvemonth lashed retired with profanity astatine Benjamin Netanyahu for congratulating President Joe Biden connected his triumph successful the U.S. election, an Israeli paper reported Friday.
Trump accused the erstwhile Israeli person of disloyalty, saying helium had helped Netanyahu successful his ain elections by reversing decades of U.S. argumentation and supporting Israel’s claims to territory seized successful war. Trump is inactive falsely claiming the U.S. predetermination was stolen from him.
In interviews earlier this twelvemonth with the Israeli writer Barak Ravid, Trump expressed fury astatine a video Netanyahu circulated online successful which helium congratulated Biden.
“Nobody did much for Bibi. And I liked Bibi. I inactive similar Bibi,” Trump said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname, successful the remarks published by English connection website of the Yediot Aharonot newspaper. “But I besides similar loyalty... Bibi could person stayed quiet. He has made a unspeakable mistake.”
Netanyahu had congratulated Biden much than 12 hours aft the predetermination was called and aft astir different satellite leaders. Netanyahu did not notation to him arsenic president-elect successful the tweet, and followed it up with a station praising Trump.
Trump appeared to beryllium peculiarly incensed by a video released by Netanyahu connected Jan. 20, the time Biden was inaugurated, successful which Netanyahu said helium and Biden had a “warm idiosyncratic relationship going backmost galore decades.”
“I haven’t spoken to him since. F—- him,” Trump was quoted arsenic saying.
In a connection released aft the remarks were publicized, Netanyahu said that helium “greatly appreciates President Trump’s large publication to the authorities of Israel and its security.”
Netanyahu said helium “also greatly appreciates the value of the beardown confederation betwixt Israel and the United States, truthful it was important to congratulate the incoming U.S. President.”
Netanyahu was replaced arsenic premier curate past summertime aft helium was incapable to signifier a governing bulk successful the aftermath of 4 hard-fought elections successful little than 2 years.
The Trump medication took unprecedented steps to enactment Israel, including dropping objections to its settlements successful the occupied West Bank and recognizing Jerusalem arsenic its capital. After proposing a Mideast program that was adamantly rejected by the Palestinians, the medication brokered normalization agreements betwixt Israel and 4 Arab states.
“I did it close earlier the election, which helped him (Netanyahu) a lot,” Trump said.
The Trump medication besides withdrew from the 2015 Iran atomic deal, to which Israel had been powerfully opposed. After helium re-imposed U.S. sanctions that had been lifted nether the deal, Iran began publically exceeding the limits it had acceptable connected its atomic program. Biden is present moving with satellite powers to effort to reconstruct the agreement.
“I’ll archer you what — had I not travel on I deliberation Israel was going to beryllium destroyed,” Trump said. “I deliberation Israel would person been destroyed possibly by now.”
Associated Press newsman Isaac Scharf contributed to this report.
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