Newsom disses Israel and Netanyahu, says Trump's strikes due to his 'grift'

In a vicious attack on President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the longstanding U.S.-Israel alliance, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a serious rethink of American support for Israel, smeared the Jewish state as an apartheid regime, and took vicious swipes at Trump, 

The comments came during an appearance with former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor at an event promoting Newsom's autobiography, "Young Man in a Hurry." When asked whether Democrats should reconsider U.S. military aid to Israel given Netanyahu's leadership, Newsom didn't hold back.

"Well, he's making that easy right now," Newsom began, launching into an attack on Netanyahu. "The issue of Bibi is interesting. Because he's got his own domestic issues. He's trying to stay out of jail. He's got an election coming up. He's potentially on the ropes. He's got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West Bank."

Newsom then channeled the notoriously anti-Netanyahu New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to push the tired leftist falsehood that Israel is heading toward "an apartheid state," adding, "For two years, they haven't even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel."He went on to imply that Trump's actions against Iran were driven purely by Israeli influence.

"In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty damn self-evident," said Newsom. "When you bring two aircraft carriers out there and you assemble the kind of military force that Trump did over the last few weeks, it didn't surprise me ultimately that they moved that direction."

When directly asked, "Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider, maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel?" Newsom feigned heartbreak.

"It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don't think you have a choice but that consideration."

He then pivoted to what he called "the grift and the corruption" tied to regional politics, dragging in Trump family members by name, including Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. 

"The fact that we are in this now, a regional war. All these proxies and all the grift and the corruption that also marks a huge part of this," he said. "And that's a real conversation we need to have, this Board of Peace. In the piece that the Witkoff family is getting, in the piece that Kushner is getting, in the peace that Trump Jr. is getting."

Newsom's remarks represent the predictable anti-Israel turn from a Democrat desperate to signal virtue to the progressive base, even as he wraps it in crocodile tears about a broken heart. The governor's willingness to echo smears of Israel as an apartheid state while questioning aid amid ongoing threats shows just how far the party has drifted from its once-stalwart support for America's closest Middle East ally. And throwing in baseless jabs at the Trump family for good measure? 

That's just par for the course in the current Democratic playbook.

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The anti debate excuses are starting

"Watch how I hang this sucker on my ear"

Joe Lockhart, like CNN, is a progressive Democrat who is as honest as Obama and the "keeping your doctor" statement.

Lockhart was Bill "I didn't have sex with that woman" Clinton's press secretary and he has written an op-ed piece [and I use the word 'piece' in a semantically overloaded way] for the Compromised News Network (CNN) that advises presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, to not debate President Trump before the November election. 

Just don't show up, is the sage advice Lockhart gives the mentally compromised Biden.

Supposedly, there are three debates scheduled beginning September 29th and running through October 22nd.  

Lockhart wants Joe to forget about them, which for Joe and his Swiss cheese memory, should be the easiest task he would undertake in his bid to ruin the economy.

“Whatever you do, don’t debate Trump,” Lockhart wrote last week. “Trump has made more than 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post. It’s a fool’s errand to enter the ring with someone who can’t follow the rules or the truth. Biden will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But it’s worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.”

So rather than coming to the debate armed with facts to go after Trump's so-called lies, Biden should just not show up. Now that's a real sign of strength.

The truth is everyone, who gets their information from sources not married to the Democrat Party, knows that Biden's thought processes are sharp as water. He gaffes more often than Trump says "very." 

Put Biden on a debate stage with Trump and he will show the country just how burnt out his brain is. Trump will make him look like an angry old man whose lawn is being overrun by BLM rioters.

And Lockhart on Sunday, using a cheap ad hominem attack, tweeted:

 “Debating @realDonaldTrump is like debating the last drunk in a bar at closing time. Anybody ever win one of those debates. We built a wall and Mexico paid for it. We’ve beaten the invisible enemy. Nobody’s been tougher on Russia. Get me one more drink bartender.”

Other Democrats came after Trump with their own false attacks. 

Zac Petkanas, a former Hillary Clinton senior adviser [she's the woman who still believes she won the last presidential election] tweeted last week saying that Biden should skip the debates because Trump is not a "legitimate candidate," thus discounting half of the American public who believes otherwise by voting for him. 

Petkanas' head leans left

And [the birdcage liner known as] The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the guy who knows as much about economics as Alexandria Obviously-Comatose, said Biden should only debate Trump if the president releases his tax returns. Friedman knows Trump never would do that voluntarily, so his statement was, in effect, telling Biden not to debate him. He also said that Trump should also agree to a real-time fact-check by an independent [preferably leftist] group during the debates.

That isn't how debates work and Friedman should know that--but even that is debatable. 

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) says the duck the debate strategy won’t fly. He said Biden should come out of his basement if he wants a chance to move into the White House. “You can’t run for president, you can’t be president and just say, ‘Let me know when this is all over because right now I’m in the hidey-hole, I plan to stay there until this all blows over.’”

Huckabee also commented on Lockhart's excuse for Biden staying hidden from the public view.  “It’s just a way of trying to justify Joe pulling out of the debates because they know that it would be a cratering moment for him.”

Lockhart and Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocked Lockhart’s op-ed on Sunday, posting on Twitter:, calling it: “Basement strategy, part 2.”

In his op-ed, headlined “Joe Biden could still lose this election,” Lockhart also advised Biden: “Don’t be afraid to be boring. The public is tired of Trump’s act. They want competence to replace the reality show. Stick to your own game. Always be the adult in the race.”

Even if it means you're not much more than a dead body.

When asked for comment, Biden told Brain Flushings: "I have to go to another appointment--I'm already late."

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