9/15/2020

PALESTINE: “I said to people that negotiated with them [Palestine] before, ‘Why did you pay when they treat the United States with such disrespect?’ They speak so badly. ‘Death to America. Death to Israel.’ I said, ‘We give them $750 million a year.’ I said, ‘Why didn’t somebody cut off those payments?’ ‘Well, we didn’t think it would be appropriate.’ I said, ‘Well, I do.’ And I cut off the payments to them, as you know.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of the State of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 15, 2020