Former President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of abandoning Israel after he threatened to halt weapons shipments to the country if it carries out a military offensive against the city of Rafah in Gaza.
"Well, I wouldn't do what Biden did. He just abandoned Israel. I've never seen anything like it," Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 election, told a Spectrum News station in North Carolina.
The former president, who is currently attending his criminal trial over hush money payments to a former porn star before the 2016 election, questioned how Jews could support Biden this November.
"Why Jewish people vote for Democrats is beyond me," Trump said in the interview. "I think maybe they'll change their mind, but they've been wedded to Democrats for you know, for 50 years, probably more than that. And there's been no president has ever done anything close to what I've done for Israel."
Biden made the comments Wednesday night in an interview with CNN, expressing fear that more civilians could be killed if Israel attacks Rafah.
"If they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities - that deal with that problem," Biden told the news outlet.
"Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers," he continued, adding: "I made it clear that if they go into Rafah ... I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities - that deal with that problem."
