Donald Trump has accused election rival Joe Biden of siding with Hamas when he threatened to stop sending US weapons to Israel, calling the president’s stance “disgraceful”, AFP reports

“Crooked Joe is taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the radical mobs taking over our college campuses,” Trump posted on his Truth Social network, referring to the protests against the bombardment in Gaza that have spread across US universities.

Speaking later to reporters outside the courtroom at his hush money trial in New York, Trump said that “what Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful.”

“He’s totally abandoned Israel and nobody can believe it,” said the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee.