“This is a fight of good versus evil,” one GOP lawmaker said in response.
The rebukes of Donald Trump from members of his own party, including Mike Lawler , come after the former president began unexpectedly criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesSome prominent Republicans are distancing themselves from former President Donald Trump, after the current GOP frontrunner repeatedly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and offered unexpected praise for Hezbollah militants.
: “Women, children, elderly, Israelis, and Americans alike have been slaughtered by these evil terrorists. It is never acceptable to praise deranged murderers or undermine one of our closest allies in their darkest hour.” “He has been hurt very badly because of what’s happened here,” Trump said in an interview for Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show” that was featured on television on Wednesday night. “He was not prepared. He was not prepared and Israel was not prepared.”“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down,” Trump said. “That was a very terrible thing.”
In his speech, Trump also described the actions of the militant group Hezbollah — an Iranian-backed proxy group based in Lebanon that the U.S. and other governments have designated a terrorist group — as “very smart.”, calling them “inhumane” and “absurd.” The White House called the comments “dangerous and unhinged” in a statement on Thursday., the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said that voters would be the ultimate judge of Trump’s rhetoric.
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