Trump renewed his call to get Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog denying that one is already « on its way. »
President Donald Trump renewed his call to secure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog quickly denying Trump’s claim that a pardon was already “on its way.”
Standing side-by-side with Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump told reporters that the prime minister is a “hero” who deserves a pardon from corruption charges that he is currently fighting in an ongoing trial:
“Oh, I think he will,” he said when asked if Herzog would grant Netanyahu’s request. “How do you not? He’s a wartime prime minister who’s a hero. How do you not give a pardon? I think it’s a very hard thing not to do.”
“I spoke to the president; he tells me it’s on its way,” Trump added. “You can’t do better than that, right?”
However, the New York Times reported that Herzog’s office “quickly denied that any decision had been made and said a decision was weeks away, at a minimum.
