{"id":43987,"date":"2025-06-25T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43987"},"modified":"2025-06-26T02:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:51:27","slug":"trump-calls-for-netanyahu-to-be-pardoned-corruption-trial-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43987","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for Netanyahu to be pardoned, corruption trial canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Wednesday called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2002<\/u><\/a>to be pardoned and his corruption trial canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this \u201cHorror Show\u201d since May of 2020 \u2013 Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, \u2018concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges\u2019 in order to do him great harm,\u201d Trump said in a Truth Social<\/u><\/a> post late Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuch a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the trial, according to The Associated Press, Netanyahu is accused of taking tens<\/u><\/a> of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of cigars and champagne from a Hollywood billionaire for personal and business help. The Israeli prime minister, in an effort to secure positive coverage for himself and his family, allegedly pushed beneficial regulations for powerful individuals in the media, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the AP, Netanyahu has denied the allegations of misconduct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s post also comes after recent U.S. involvement in a conflict between Israel and Iran, with American forces participating in a strike against Iran over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president went after<\/u><\/a> the Israelis and Iranians on Tuesday, expressing his displeasure at fighting that went on between the regional rivals after the president had announced the parameters of a ceasefire Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe basically \u2014 we have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don\u2019t know what the f\u001e\u001e\u001e they\u2019re doing,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Trump\u2002on Wednesday called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2002to be pardoned and his corruption trial canceled. \u201cI just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this \u201cHorror Show\u201d since May of 2020 \u2013 Unheard of! This is the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7835,4576,24540,1230],"class_list":["post-43987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption-trial","tag-netanyahu","tag-pardon","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43989,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions\/43989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}