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 by James Turnage, author of “A Little Murder in the Biggest Little City”

Trump gushed over Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. They’re a lot alike; autocratic, egomaniacal, corrupt, and arrogant. Netanyahu is the primary reason there has been no peace in the Middle East. He has refused to talk to Palestinian leaders. Netanyahu is a danger to his people.

It appears that the Israeli leader lost Tuesday’s election. Trump will be disappointed. Former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is speaking out about Trump’s lack of mental competency. If he is praised, he becomes a fool and a tool.

Tillerson said Wednesday that Israeli officials “played” President Donald Trump in their conversations with him, warning that a “healthy amount of skepticism” is needed in dealings with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaking to a Harvard University Panel, Tillerson discussed his tenure in the Trump administration, he explained Trump’s decision to support Netanyahu and discount Iran’s claims and interests in the area.

“They did that with the president on a couple of occasions, to persuade him that ‘We’re the good guys, they’re the bad guys,’” Tillerson said, according to the Harvard Gazette. “We later exposed it to the president so he understood, ‘You’ve been played.’”

There is no doubt this didn’t set well with the orange man. His ego must have been crushed. Tillerson was fired soon after the incident. He “knows more than everyone about everything,” and “has a very good brain;” except when he’s breathing.

The list of leaders of several nations who are in reality tyrannical dictators, compares closely to the list of men Trump admires. Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Recip Tayyip Erdogan, and Rodrigo Duterte have received praise from Trump. Not a single leader of a Democratic country is on his list.

“The truth lives here;” pass it on.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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