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Thursday, May 9, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Trump: Biden siding with Hamas, leading world ‘straight into World War III’
Former US president Donald Trump, followed by his attorney Todd Blanche, walks to speak to reporters following the day's proceedings in his trial, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)
Former US president and current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump lambastes President Joe Biden for his conditioning of American arms and support on Israel refraining from a full incursion into Rafah, alleging that Biden is taking Hamas’s side in the conflict and “leading the world straight into World War III.”
In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump claims “Crooked Joe is taking the side of these terrorists” — referring to Hamas — “just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses, because his donors are funding them.
“Biden is weak, corrupt, and leading the world straight into World War III,” he says, claiming once again that the Israel-Hamas war wouldn’t have been started had he been president.
