Trump Spox Gives Bizarre Answer to Maggie Haberman Over Trump Claim He’s Been to Gaza

A Trump campaign official told New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman that “Gaza was in Israel” and that former President Donald Trump had been to Israel in an attempt to rationalize the Republican nominee’s bizarre claim to have visited the war-torn territory.

During an interview on Monday with radio host Hugh Hewitt, on the anniversary of the Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, Trump was asked whether Gaza, which has been the focus of an Israeli military campaign since, could be built into a place that Palestinian people “would be proud of” and “would benefit them.”

In response, Trump said: “It could be better than Monaco. It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything. It’s got, it is the best, I’ve said it for years. You know when — I’ve been there, and it’s rough. It’s a rough place, before the, you know, before all of the attacks and before the back and forth what’s happened over the last couple of years.”

In a debunk for the New York Times, Haberman noted that there was no record of Trump ever having been to Gaza. When she approached the Trump campaign for comment, an official spoke to her off-the-record.

Under the condition of anonymity, the official claimed: “Gaza is in Israel. President Trump has been to Israel.”

Responding to the official’s defense of Trump, Haberman noted in her article: “The Gaza Strip is not part of Israel and has never been, though some Israelis have called for annexing it. It was occupied by Israel from 1967 until 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew from the territory.”

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