Jun 26, 2025 9:49:00 am
– CORRUPTION IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER:
Trump demands end to Netanyahu’s graft trial: ‘US saved Israel, now it’s going to save Bibi.’ In unprecedented intervention in Israeli justice system, US president slams criminal case against PM as a ‘ridiculous Witch Hunt,’ declares ‘THIS TRAVESTY CAN NOT BE ALLOWED’
Fresh off striking Iranian nuclear facilities together with Israel, US President Donald Trump on Thursday demanded the end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial.
“BREAKING NEWS… I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister!” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
The unprecedented intervention in the Israeli justice system by an American president came as the cross-examination of Netanyahu, which began earlier this month, was due to resume after being halted while courts went on emergency footing amid the war with Iran, with only urgent proceedings taking place.
The US president said that he and Netanyahu “just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the Holy land.
“Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel,” Trump claimed. “The result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!
We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu.” Trump denounced the case against Netanyahu as “politically motivated,” saying the prime minister has gone through a “Horror Show” since the trial began in 2020.
“Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me,” said Trump, echoing both Netanyahu’s rhetoric about the trial and his own regarding the criminal cases and legal challenges he has faced.
“Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State,”
Trump continued. “It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF ‘JUSTICE’ CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!” he concluded.
There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu on Trump’s statement. A spokesperson for the prime minister’s Likud party shared a Hebrew translation of it on X.
Netanyahu is on trial in three corruption cases. He faces charges of fraud and breach of trust in Case 1000 and Case 2000, and charges of bribery, as well as fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000.
In Case 1000, he is charged with fraud and breach of trust surrounding allegations that he and his wife Sara received expensive gifts illicitly from Hollywood media mogul Arnon Milchan worth some NIS 700,000 and that Netanyahu violated conflict of interest laws when he provided Milchan with assistance in renewing his long-term US residency visa and sought to help him with tax issues.
In Case 2000, the prime minister is accused of fraud and breach of trust over his alleged attempt to reach a quid pro quo agreement with the publisher of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Arnon (Noni) Mozes, whereby Yedioth would give the prime minister more positive media coverage in exchange for legislation weakening its key rival, the Israel Hayom free sheet.
Case 4000, also known as the Bezeq-Walla case, is the most serious case the prime minister faces, in which he is accused of authorizing regulatory decisions that financially benefited Bezeq telecommunications giant shareholder Shaul Elovitch by hundreds of millions of shekels. In return, Netanyahu allegedly received favorable media coverage from the Walla news site, which Elovitch also owned.
Netanyahu denies any wrongdoing and says all the charges were fabricated in a political coup led by the police and state prosecution.
Times of Israel.
EVEN FROM THE GRAVE, EPSTEIN WILL ALWAYS DEMAND MORE: Trump just shined a massive spotlight on the reason Netanyahu needed the war to continue. A ceasefire in Gaza will now force Bibi to face the music. Not only the corruption stuff, but even more so the Hamas attack that happened on his watch. Almost starting a full blown war with Iran was not enough, America now needs to ‘save’ Bibi from himself.
Make Israel Great Again, convict Netanyahu and remove him from power. Six months of sustained protests against Netanyahu rocked Israel right up to the Hamas October 7 attack. He has exhausted all of his options, this is the last desperate plea of a desperately deranged and selfish megalomaniac.
UPDATE SUNDAY 29/6: Trump has called for ongoing corruption charges against Netanyahu to be dropped, describing proceedings as a “political witch hunt” delaying ceasefire negotiations.
On Sunday, an Israeli court accepted a request by the Israeli prime minister to delay his scheduled testimony for a week, due to diplomatic and security issues.
Netanyahu was charged in 2019 with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, all of which he denies.
Earlier in the week, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said Trump should not “intervene in a legal process of an independent state” BBC