If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the White House, Israel will cease to exist, former US president Donald Trump tells a gathering of Republican Jews via video.
“I will work with you to make sure Israel is with us for thousands of years,” the Republican nominee says to applause. “If they win, Israel is gone… you can forget about Israel, that’s what’s going to happen.
Voting for him is the only way to save the Jewish state from surefire destruction, he claims.
“They have to vote for Trump, if they don’t I think it’s gonna be a very terrible situation,” he says, vowing to “help Israel become great again.”
Reprising his oft-criticized habit of conflating US Jews with Israelis, he tells the crowd of Americans “right now what you are going through is horrible that you have to go through that, with all the death, destruction and waste and ruining a civilization,” he says, without clarifying. The crowd does not appear to mind.
During the speech, Trump also claims that had he remained president, “every country virtually” would have joined the Abraham Accords.
He claims Jews felt safe in public during his time in office, ignoring a reported spike in antisemitic incidents during his presidency.
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