Trump privately calling for Netanyahu to be ‘impeached,’ asking aides if he should do so publicly — report

Former US president Donald Trump has privately been calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be “impeached” over the government’s failure to anticipate the weekend Hamas onslaught, Rolling Stone magazine reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

The stance has been advocated in calls Trump has held with several pro-Israel, Republican allies who have asked the former president and current GOP presidential frontrunner how he would handle the current Israel-Hamas war.

Trump has proposed cutting off all US humanitarian aid to the Palestinians (in both the West Bank and Gaza, as he did when he was president) and encouraging other countries to do the same as well as capturing and extraditing Hamas figures, Rolling Stone says.

In most of the conversations, though, Trump has focused on his distaste for Netanyahu, whom he has never forgiven for congratulating US President Joe Biden after he won the 2020 election.

Trump has expressed his desire for Netanyahu to be out of office by the time he hopes to be back in the White House in 2025, according to the report.

Also in these conversations with pro-Israel Republican allies, Trump has likened Netanyahu to the “very weak” majority of American Jews who voted for Biden.

Trump has asked multiple close aides whether he should begin publicly calling for Netanyahu’s ouster but has thus far been told that doing so would not be appropriate while Israel is still counting the dead from the massive Hamas assault.

At a campaign rally yesterday, Trump appeared to make light of the intelligence failure, called the Hezbollah terror group “very smart” and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant a “jerk.”