For Trump-Bibi fans, a demoralizing end
I’ve seen Ravid in action on assignment. Always prepared, he is aggressive, professional, and very left-wing, with a strong aversion to Binyamin Netanyahu.
The Trump administration, typically contemptuous of the left-wing media, trusted Ravid, who writes now for Axios, a leading online news outlet. When the time came for Trump to vent against Bibi, he found a sympathetic ear in Ravid.
Ravid’s book also detailed how Trump’s senior advisors Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz acted with disdain toward Israel’s Ambassador Ron Dermer on multiple occasions, mainly after misunderstandings stemming from Trump’s “deal of the century” for Middle East peace.
Ravid’s book turns the conventional wisdom on its ears — that Trump and Netanyahu were in political lockstep, their reelection fates intertwined. Both were actually on a collision course following the White House news conference on January 28, 2020, at which Trump unveiled his deal in the presence of US, Israeli, and Arab leaders.
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