2024 Republican presidential frontrunner suggests public expressions by Israeli and U.S. officials of concerns about Hezbollah strike from Lebanon prompted rocket launches
Donald Trump on Wednesday called Hezbollah “very smart” hours after the Lebanese-based terror group fired missiles at Israeli troops — and in separate remarks the former president implied Hamas would never have attacked Israel if he had been in the White House.
“Two nights ago, I read all of Biden’s security people, can you imagine, national defense people, and they said, ‘Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack from the north, because that’s the most vulnerable spot,’ ” Trump told the crowd. “I said, ‘Wait a minute.’ You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart.”
“They have a national defense minister or somebody saying, ‘I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack us from the north.’ So the following morning, they attacked,” Trump said. “We have to protect Israel,” Trump said. “There’s no choice. And why do we have to do it? has been hurt very badly because of what’s happened here. He was not prepared. He was not prepared, and Israel was not prepared.”
“He was a very bad guy, very smart guy, but a very bad guy,” Trump said of the Iranian general killed during a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in January 2020.
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