Former President Donald Trump said he has cut ties with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because the Israeli leader congratulated President Biden after his election victory.
Trump has accused his former close ally of disloyalty after Netanyahu called to congratulate Biden earlier than other Trump allies like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
"He was very early — like, earlier than most," Trump told Israeli journalist Barak Ravid in an interview published Friday by Axios. "I haven't spoken to him since. Fuck him."
Ravid, who interviewed Trump twice for his upcoming book, wrote that Trump "repeatedly criticized" Netanyahu, who was notably close to the twice-impeached former president and even closer with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, a longtime Netanyahu family friend. The only real point of disagreement between the two deposed leaders appears to be that Netanyahu accepted the results of the election while Trump continues to push false claims of fraud 13 months later and has begun laying the groundwork to potentially overturn future elections.
"The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. ... Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake," Trump claimed. In fact, Netanyahu was not the first leader to call Biden and did not congratulate him for more than 12 hours after the election was called. Israeli opposition leader...
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