He said he said

The Beeb has more on Trump’s interventions:

During remarks to a crowd of supporters, Mr Trump said Israel had to “straighten it out because they’re fighting, potentially a very big force”.

He called Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant a “jerk” and repeatedly called Hezbollah, the militant Islamist group in Lebanon, “very smart”.

Mr Trump also said that Israel had initially agreed to work with the US on a 2020 drone strike that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, but that they backed out at the last minute.

“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down,” he said. “That was a very terrible thing.”

That “Bibi” crap is so grating. He wants to remind us that he knows Netanyahu personally. Just leave it at home, Don.

Mr Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, noted a pattern in his old boss’s foreign policy statements.

“Hezbollah aren’t smart, they’re evil,” he said in a radio interview on Thursday.

“But the former president also said when Russia invaded Ukraine in a similar, unprovoked, unconscionable invasion a year-and-a-half ago, he said Vladimir Putin was a genius.”

Well they can of course be both. Trump himself is “smart” in the sense of “good at committing crimes with impunity.” But in the case of Hezbollah and Trump, how “smart” they are is irrelevant to how profoundly evil they are.

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