'Unprecedented': Ex-Trump insider says president just issued a 'veiled threat'
Donald Trump just "threatened Israel" on Saturday, according to a former associate of the president.
Lev Parnas, a former "trusted operative" of the president, over the weekend reported on a secretive global power shift involving Trump and other world leaders.
After that report, Trump came out with a comment about Israel.
"It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu. He is a War Hero, and a Prime Minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States to bring Great Success in getting rid of the dangerous Nuclear threat in Iran," Trump wrote. "Importantly, he is right now in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back. How is it possible that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to sit in a Courtroom all day long, over NOTHING (Cigars, Bugs Bunny Doll, etc.)."
Trump also said, "The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this."
That's the part that stood out for Parnas, who highlighted those two sentences.
"BREAKING: Donald Trump is threatening Israel, demanding they halt the criminal proceedings against Prime Minister Netanyahu—or face consequences," Parnas wrote on Saturday. "This is an unprecedented intrusion into a sovereign legal process."
Parnas went even further in a Substack post, writing, "Trump issued a thinly veiled threat to a sovereign democracy—Israel—for daring to hold its own Prime Minister accountable."
He added that Trump's comment was "as if American aid to Israel should come with personal immunity for Bibi Netanyahu."
"Let me be clear: Donald Trump is using U.S. foreign aid as a political weapon to protect fellow authoritarians. He did it with Ukraine and now he’s doing it with Israel," Parnas said. "This is a man actively undermining our global alliances for his personal power network."
Read the Substack post right here.