Trump says Oct 7 Hamas attack ‘would never have happened’ if he was president

Republican former president Donald Trump has met Jewish leaders at a sacred gravesite in New York, according to AFP.

“We can never forget the nightmare of that day,” Trump told a crowd of a few hundred at his golf club, adding that “the October 7 attack would never have happened if I was president.”

And he hailed progress in Israel’s campaign to degrade Hamas’s military capabilities, telling his audience: “The dawn of a new, more harmonious Middle East is finally within our reach.”

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