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Trump threatens to save Netanyahu from corruption charges [1]

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Date: 2025-06-25

It's one corrupt authoritarian politician coming to the rescue of another corrupt authoritarian politician.

Netanyahu's corrumption trial began in 2020. The prosecution had 333 witnesses. They rested their case in July 2024. Defense started in December of 2024. The last testimony that I can find by Netanyahu was June 3rd.

Unlike Trump, charges have never been dropped, except for one, still retaining his position as Prime Minister, but he had to give up all other positions. Apparently, at some point, Bibi complained about his predicament to Trump, and Trump decided to take it off of his to-do list while flying back to the US from the Netherlands and the UN summit meeting.

Part 1

"BREAKING NEWS...I was shocked to hear the State of Israel..."

If you could do a scrolling chyron on Truth Social, it would be there for the Breaking News. And "I'm shocked, shocked to hear that there has been gambling in this establishment!" (Claude Rains in "Casablanca").

"... is continuing it's ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister!"

Witch Hunt. He just had to say Witch Hunt. Having a war has kept Netanyahu out of jail. It's delayed his trial because of his position.

"Bibi and I went through HELL together..."

I can hear the music "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha playing in the background. It fits Trump because he rails at windmills, and he is Donald Quixote. He gets too flowery in his speech about Bibi . I'll skip over that.

"Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel."

What? Menachem Begin and Golda Meir were chump change? Oye!

"... a complete elimination of one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!"

There wasn't any nuclear weapon at all, yet. How could it have been one of the most powerful weapons in the world? The biggest one we ever tested was 15 megatons. That's a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb. The Russians tested a 50 megaton bomb. That's the biggest one ever made. Iran would have had 90% enrichment of uranium at some time in the future, but everything said that Khamenei had not restarted the nuclear bomb program. It is still odd Iran was enriching past 5% when there is no peaceful use for it.

"Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to the court on Monday for the continuation of this long running (He has been going through this 'Horror Show' since May of 2020 --- Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Prime Minister has ever been on trial).

Geez, that was a long parenthetical aside. I almost think that Trump has seen "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and sang to it.

Part 3.

"... politically motivated case, concerning 'cigars and a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges' in order to do him great harm."

There's three different cases against him, case 1000 is about bribery and corruption, having received $300,000 worth of gifts, cigars and Champagne from Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, and the Australian billionaire James Packer. The Bugs Bunny doll is a reference to when in 1996, his wife asked a Hollywood mogul to bring a large stuffed doll to a meeting in New York.

It should be noted that during his interrogation, Netanyahu said he "didn't remember" 1,788 times.

"Bibi Netanyahu's trial should be CANCELED IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the state."

Trump, of course, has gone pardon crazy recently. Actually on the first day of his term by pardoning all the January 6th criminals. But recently he's done other ones that are extremely questionable. People that gave money somewhere, somehow, that got to him, all of a sudden got pardons.

I'm going to skip over the president, me, me, me, me part.

"It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it's going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu."

Now I'm worried. First he talks about regime change in Iran and now he's talking about intervening in the Israeli justice system. Trump just can't keep his fingers out of trouble. Those little stubby fingers.

"THIS TRAVESTY OF 'JUSTICE' CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!"

What exactly does he mean by this? Not be allowed. Corruption trials are always a travesty to Trump, because he should be in them. Especially since the start of his second term. There were a million instances in his first term and I did a diary on that called "Follow Trump's money and take it away from him." What exactly is Trump planning to do to help Netanyahu? Threaten to withhold aid if they continue the trial? That hurts Netanyahu more than it helps. I can't think of any action that he could do that would help.

It takes a crook to know a crook. If he talks like a crook, and walks like a crook, and steals money like a crook, don't let that fool you, he really is a crook.

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