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Yair Lapid: With all due respect and gratitude to the president of the United States, he’s not supposed to intervene in a legal…

On the recordJune 25, 2025
With all due respect and gratitude to the president of the United States, he’s not supposed to intervene in a legal process of an independent state.
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Yair Lapid
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Lapid criticizes Trump's intervention in Israel's legal matters.

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