Maddow Blog | Trump’s interactions with Israel’s Netanyahu draw fresh scrutiny

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Maddow Blog | Trump’s interactions with *******’s Netanyahu draw fresh scrutiny

During Donald Trump’s presidency, the *********** expressed outrage when U.S. officials interacted with foreign officials without coordinating with his administration. In fact, at one point, Trump talked about charging former Secretary of State John Kerry with a ******.

In 2019, the then-president — who routinely tried to get the Justice Department to prosecute political figures he disliked —

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that Kerry “should be prosecuted” for violating the Logan Act, adding, “He’s talking to Iran and has had many meetings and many phone calls and he’s telling them what to do. That is total violation of the Logan Act.”

Trump had

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, but he nevertheless appeared convinced that a former U.S. official interacting with foreign governments was both scandalous and *********.

It now appears the *********** has changed his mind.

As regular readers

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, Trump

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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron to Mar-a-Lago in the spring, for example, which came on the heels of the former president

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Polish President Andrzej Duda

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. Trump has also reportedly had

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with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

When The New York Times

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, it quoted Richard Haass, a former diplomat and the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, saying the meetings are not unusual in the ********* tradition. The article

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, “Mr. Trump would cross a red line, however, with any attempt to influence the words or actions of foreign leaders — for instance, by asking for expressions of support or that they take steps to undermine Mr. Biden’s policies, he said. ‘Then he is carrying out a foreign policy,’ Mr. Haass said, adding, ‘This is all fine in principle. It just depends on the actual content in practice.’”

That paragraph came to mind this week when I saw

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from The New Republic.

Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-***** deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS. “The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of *******, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff Monday night.

To be sure, there’s some ambiguity about the reporting that the veteran journalist referenced. Axios

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last week, for example, that said the former ********* president and the ******** prime minister have privately discussed a possible Gaza ******** and ceasefire deal. The reporting was not independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, and Netanyahu’s office denied its accuracy in a statement soon after.

Woodruff might have been referring to this, or perhaps some other reporting.

Either way, if there’s reason to believe Trump has lobbied Netanyahu not to reach a diplomatic agreement, because the GOP nominee is worried about the developments potentially helping the Democratic ticket, that would be a real scandal. (It would also be reminiscent of

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.)

Watch this space.

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