Trump appears to knock Israeli intel failure, says ‘Bibi let us down’ during killing of Quds Force chief

Former US president Donald Trump appears to knock Israel for failing to anticipate the weekend Hamas onslaught.

“You talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week, they’ve got to straighten it out because they’re fighting potentially a very big force. They’re fighting potentially, Iran,” the GOP presidential frontrunner says during a campaign rally in West Palm Beach. “When they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they’re vicious and they’re smart. And boy, are they vicious because nobody’s ever seen the kind of sight that we’ve seen.”

“They cannot play games,” he continues. “They’ve got to strengthen themselves up.”

He makes the comments while recalling his administration’s 2020 assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the then-head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force.

Trump reiterates his claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to provide the US assistance in the killing.

“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing. We were very disappointed, but we did the job ourselves, and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job,” he says. “Then Bibi tried to take credit for it. That didn’t make me feel too good. But that’s all right.”

Whoa. Trump just attacked Israel and said that he'll "never forget" that they didn't participate in the Soleimani operation. He said Israel "let us down" and needs to "straighten it out" and called them weak, saying they should "strengthen themselves up." pic.twitter.com/pMrWLt8ojz

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