Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton praised President Donald Trump’s latest Middle East initiative, telling Newsmax on Friday that reports Hamas has accepted portions of a Trump-brokered peace plan highlight the difference strong leadership can make.
“It’s incredible what he’s been able to achieve, even if this turns out to be Hamas playing for time a little bit and quibbling over some of the elements of the plan,” Hilton told “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “The fact that we’re at this stage, and the fact that the president got all the Arab nations on board for this plan, was able to put the plan together in the first place … just proves to show what a difference it makes when you get a problem-solving, pragmatic business guy in the Oval Office instead of all these decades of politicians who just don’t have a clue how to actually get anything done.”
Hilton said the effort builds on Trump’s first-term achievements, including the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab nations.
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