Lapid blasts Knesset speaker for bringing Paraguayan counterpart to PM’s trial: ‘A disgrace’

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid slams Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana after the Likud lawmaker brought his Paraguayan counterpart to the Tel Aviv District Court to lend support to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is giving testimony in his criminal trial on corruption charges.

“It’s a disgrace. Instead of taking him to Nir Oz, they’re taking him to the courthouse. When I said that Ohana is the speaker of half the Knesset, he was offended, and that’s precisely what being the speaker of half the Knesset is. Why is he involving him in the prime minister’s trial?” Lapid says, arguing that “Netanyahu has become an embarrassment to the State of Israel worldwide.”

Ohana brought Raúl Latorre, the president of Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies, into the courtroom, where the official told Netanyahu that “we are here to give you our full support,” adding that Ohana had told him “how unfair this trial is.”