Trump criticized for calling Hezbollah 'very smart' as he talked of potential risk to Israel

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The former president also called Israel's defense minister a 'jerk.'

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.In a rare move, the White House on Thursday publicly pushed back against former President Donald Trump after he labeled Israel's defense minister a "jerk" and also called theand has so far carried out a number of military strikes and operations on Gaza.

Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a Thursday statement that what Trump said about Hezbollah was "dangerous and unhinged." He added that Trump, the front-runner for the nomination so far, is "simply not expressing -- and his imitators in this primary are not expressing -- the same muscular American foreign policy that we lived out every day."

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.An Obama spokeswoman declined to comment to ABC News when asked for reaction to what Trump said. On Thursday, ABC News reported that, according to sources, the fund has since essentially been blocked again.

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