The column Trump shared in full, written by the conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord, argued that the former president was justified in using the broadly condemned characterization.
on Friday revived a two-week-old controversy over his description of Hezbollah terrorist attackers as “very smart,” posting a column on social media that sought to defend his characterization of the group.The column Trump shared in full, written by the conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord, argued that the former president was justified in using the broadly condemned characterization — and Lord also called Trump “smart” as well.
President Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee seized on Trump’s latest social media post, with the DNC claiming on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Trump was “once again praising a terrorist organization.”“You know, Hezbollah is very smart,” Trump said. “They’re all very smart.”
At the time, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung defended the former president’s comments, saying Trump “was clearly pointing out how incompetent Biden and his administration were by telegraphing to the terrorists an area that is susceptible to an attack” and added that “smart does not equal good.”“There is no connection whatsoever — zero — between the definition of ‘smart’ and the concepts of good, bad, or indifferent, much less any tie between ‘smart’ and ‘evil,’” Lord wrote.
calling Hezbollah smart drew condemnations both domestically and abroad, including among his rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. But Trump, so far, has maintained a large lead in the polls over his Republican competition.Fine, the only Jewish Republican lawmaker in Florida’s state legislature, accused DeSantis of not doing enough to combat antisemitism in the state amid the
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