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President-elect Donald Trump shared a blistering critique of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by economics professor Jeffrey Sachs that blasts the leader for having dragged the United States into “phony wars” in Iraq and Syria.
Trump posted the clip to Truth Social just hours after his whirlwind press conference on Tuesday during which he repeated his desire to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland as well as warning of “hell” to pay if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages taken during the October 7 attack by the time he returns to the White House.
In the clip, which splices together portions of the academic’s remarks to the soundtrack of sci-fi film Interstellar, Sachs can be heard calling out previous Washington administrations for using “lies and deceit” to manufacture citizen backing for overseas conflicts before rounding on Netanyahu’s influence on U.S. foreign policy.
The 70-year-old academic, who has made guest appearances in recent months on MAGA podcasts, including Tucker Carlson’s show, held nothing back in the footage. He highlighted U.S. actions in Syria, alleging covert efforts to overthrow Bashar al-Assad before Russian involvement while slamming mainstream media outlets, like the New York Times, for failing to properly report on it.
The war in Syria, and you may actually hear from grown-up reporters who are lying through their teeth or ignorant beyond imagining, ‘That, oh, the war in Syria, yes, Russia intervened in Syria.’ Well, do you know that [former President Barack] Obama tasks the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government starting four years before Russia intervened?
What kind of nonsense is that, and how many times did the New York Times report on Operation Timber Sycamore? Which was the presidential order to the CIA to overthrow Bashar al-Assad? Three times in 10 years.
Turning to the 2003 Iraq invasion, Sachs accused Washington of manufacturing public consent through “focus groups” before pivoting to blame Netanyahu:
They actually did focus groups in the fall of 2002 to find out what would sell that war to the American people… It was a phony war. Where did that war come from? You know what it’s quite surprising; that war came from Netanyahu, actually.
He added that Netanyahu devised a strategy to topple governments backing Hamas and Hezbollah—namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran:
He’s a deep dark son of a bitch, sorry to tell you… So what is this democracy versus dictatorship? Come on, these are not even sensible terms.
Trump’s decision to share the video comes only months after he hosted Netanyahu and his wife at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, where both leaders appeared cordial, and weeks before he is set to return to the world stage as president.
