September 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Jeffrey Lichtman joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the Israel strikes against Hamas leadership in Qatar and Trumps claim he had no knowledge beforehand.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's go to Jeffreys lick him in, high profile
criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast
found in the iHeartRadio app. And I know you want
to talk about Israel, and I think it's one of
the top stories of the day. Let me just give
an update. According to several news sources, they did not
take out the top leadership of a mass although they
did take out five people in leadership. And what I
(00:25):
wanted to ask you about, Jeffrey, just to start off
the conversation, do you buy that President Trump knew nothing
about this? That seems odd?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, you know, the only reason I think that he
may not have known is that what does he have
to gain by lying about it and saying that he
didn't though, is It's not like he's the leader of
the UK or France or even Guitar where he has
to say these things because he needs to playcate a
savage Islamist base that lives in his country, and he's
(00:57):
afraid that they're going to tear him apart physically if
he says that he supported the Israeli strike the same
way you've got the leaders as they said of the
UK and France.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, I get a second, just for one second. He
was just over there and and he was promised a
huge investment by Cutter, and he talks about them as
his good friend, and I don't think he wants to
harm that relationship. So if he was not going to
be completely upfront about it, that would be the reason,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, that would be pathetic that the reason would be
is about money in his pocket as opposed to you
know what's right, which is killing Muslim terrorists. I mean, look,
it seems unlikely that Trump didn't know, But at the
same time, he puts out this tweet where he says, well,
we tried to tell the leaders of Guitars so that
they could stop it. I mean, what kind of madness
(01:50):
is this? Since when is it bad that the Muslim
terror leaders that have killed Americans, that have killed you know,
thousands of people over the years, that suddenly we're concerned
about them being killed in another country? I mean, where
we also upset that we took out Bin Laden, Where
we upset that we took out Bin Laden in Pakistan?
(02:11):
I mean, what is going on here that the world
is losing its mind that these are people, these are
what leaders of another country. These are the scummiest Muslim
terror leaders that ever existed, and we should be applauding
the fact that any of them were taken out and
the fact that our ally are so called ally, that
they provided them safety for two years. Now. On October eighth,
(02:35):
the leaders of Tatar should have had either the Hamas
leaders killed or arrested and brought to Israel. The fact
that they've been able to live there for two years
is a stain on all of us. The fact that
their state run media, Qatar state run media, our great ally,
is calling for the abduction of additional Israeli soldiers and
(02:59):
calling them heroes. If the Hamas fighters do that, that's
our ally. This is the same ally that's pouring billions
of dollars of money into oard universities and to brainwash
our college students to hate Israel and to love Muslim extremism.
I mean, this is the absolute craziest crap that I've
(03:20):
ever heard in my life. And listen, you want to
know why the world is turning against Israel, Larry, I'll
tell you it's in part because this is mealy mouthcrap
coming from President Trump, where he should have applauded it.
Instead he's saying that it was a mistake. Instead he's
saying things, Well, they shouldn't have done it our great ally.
They are not our ally. They are not our ally
(03:43):
in any sense of the word. They are aligned with Hamas.
They are hiding and protecting Hamas. We should be ashamed
of it, full stop. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I think what he's trying to do is bring peace.
I think that he is allergic to war. We know
that because he refuses to send men into war. And
I think all he wants to do is have peace
in the region. And here is the strange part of
his statement. And Netanya who said this too, they said,
because of this attack, I think now we'll be able
(04:14):
to negotiate peace. I don't understand the connection between the
two of those things.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, the connection is that if you kill the leaders,
that at some point that there's nobody left to leave
these animals. But you know something, this is what the
world the jew haters are doing. They're saying, Israel killed
the negotiators, they killed the negotiators, they don't want peace. Well, Larry,
I'll tell you this. On October seventh, those were the
leaders that directed it that caused October seventh. Those are
(04:42):
the leaders that were seen celebrating watching the massacre on TV,
watching women at getting raped, killed, beheaded. They were the
ones celebrating. And there were such peacenicks, these peace negotiators
in Katar that got killed. They were such peacenicks that
the day before yesterday they directed his half assed statements
(05:06):
he should be coming out as as the representative of
the leader of the free world and celebrating the fact
that the people that killed Americans, that that that killed
Americans are dead instead of blaming Israel for shame. Shame
on Trump, shame.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think he's more upset if it is true, which
I see I really really doubt is that he wasn't notified.
But I think he's just trying to distance himself from it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
How he was notified. Yeah, the first thing he did
is he's he directed Witkoff to tell guitars they could
try to stop it. You know, maybe Israel's got to
stop telling America at all because he's because Trump is
acting like he's the leader of France. Listen, Trump's position
on this, just so we're clear, is the same as
(05:59):
the leader of France, is the same as the leader
of the UK is the same as the leader of
North Korea is the same as the leader of Hamas.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hey, Jeffrey, I don't think everybody is where you're at.
I think that you want total destruction. Nobody wants to
know they're not They're people want peace. They're not Jew
haters just because they want peace, just because listen, listen,
you don't think enough. You don't think enough has happened.
(06:30):
You don't think enough. We're gonna be talking over each other,
but you don't think enough has happened already. You don't
think the the destruction of Gaza at this point is enough.
You don't think the decimation of Hamas to the point
where they have to hide now and cutter is enough.
I mean, when is enough? You just want total destruction?
(06:51):
Do you want total destruction? Is that what you want?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah? Can I respond to what you said?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Of course you think that they have to hide in Katar.
They've been hiding there since October seventh. The idea that
we should stop now because the people that did all
this murder in Mayhem haven't surrendered yet. The fact that
they're using human shields in Gaza should be Israel's responsibility. No,
when they surrender, that's when this ends. When we were
(07:21):
having the war, the Second World War and Japan refused
to surrender, we knewked them. That's what we did. And
anybody who's singed in America was all for those bombs
because it ended the war and saved countless life. We
should Israel should not have to apologize for fighting Muslim terror.
Who gives a good goddamn if Gaza is destroyed when
(07:43):
these people still fully back Abbas and backed it on
October seventh and joined in it on October seventh, There
should never be an apology for killing Muslim terror. That's
the reason why they're taking over New York City, Larry,
because this weak response of saying enough is enough. Have peace?
How can you have peace with the people that shot
up a bus the day before? Are they so decimated, Larry,
(08:06):
that they're not capable of shooting up a bus the
day before and killing innocent people? They're clearly not that decimated.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, you got the last word. Jeffrey Lickman, high profile
criminal defense attorneys with us every Wednesday at seven oh five,
Look forward to the next week. Jeffrey
Now let's go to Jeffreys lick him in, high profile
criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast
found in the iHeartRadio app. And I know you want
to talk about Israel, and I think it's one of
the top stories of the day. Let me just give
an update. According to several news sources, they did not
take out the top leadership of a mass although they
did take out five people in leadership. And what I
(00:25):
wanted to ask you about, Jeffrey, just to start off
the conversation, do you buy that President Trump knew nothing
about this? That seems odd?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, you know, the only reason I think that he
may not have known is that what does he have
to gain by lying about it and saying that he
didn't though, is It's not like he's the leader of
the UK or France or even Guitar where he has
to say these things because he needs to playcate a
savage Islamist base that lives in his country, and he's
(00:57):
afraid that they're going to tear him apart physically if
he says that he supported the Israeli strike the same
way you've got the leaders as they said of the
UK and France.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, I get a second, just for one second. He
was just over there and and he was promised a
huge investment by Cutter, and he talks about them as
his good friend, and I don't think he wants to
harm that relationship. So if he was not going to
be completely upfront about it, that would be the reason,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, that would be pathetic that the reason would be
is about money in his pocket as opposed to you
know what's right, which is killing Muslim terrorists. I mean, look,
it seems unlikely that Trump didn't know, But at the
same time, he puts out this tweet where he says, well,
we tried to tell the leaders of Guitars so that
they could stop it. I mean, what kind of madness
(01:50):
is this? Since when is it bad that the Muslim
terror leaders that have killed Americans, that have killed you know,
thousands of people over the years, that suddenly we're concerned
about them being killed in another country? I mean, where
we also upset that we took out Bin Laden, Where
we upset that we took out Bin Laden in Pakistan?
(02:11):
I mean, what is going on here that the world
is losing its mind that these are people, these are
what leaders of another country. These are the scummiest Muslim
terror leaders that ever existed, and we should be applauding
the fact that any of them were taken out and
the fact that our ally are so called ally, that
they provided them safety for two years. Now. On October eighth,
(02:35):
the leaders of Tatar should have had either the Hamas
leaders killed or arrested and brought to Israel. The fact
that they've been able to live there for two years
is a stain on all of us. The fact that
their state run media, Qatar state run media, our great ally,
is calling for the abduction of additional Israeli soldiers and
(02:59):
calling them heroes. If the Hamas fighters do that, that's
our ally. This is the same ally that's pouring billions
of dollars of money into oard universities and to brainwash
our college students to hate Israel and to love Muslim extremism.
I mean, this is the absolute craziest crap that I've
(03:20):
ever heard in my life. And listen, you want to
know why the world is turning against Israel, Larry, I'll
tell you it's in part because this is mealy mouthcrap
coming from President Trump, where he should have applauded it.
Instead he's saying that it was a mistake. Instead he's
saying things, Well, they shouldn't have done it our great ally.
They are not our ally. They are not our ally
(03:43):
in any sense of the word. They are aligned with Hamas.
They are hiding and protecting Hamas. We should be ashamed
of it, full stop. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I think what he's trying to do is bring peace.
I think that he is allergic to war. We know
that because he refuses to send men into war. And
I think all he wants to do is have peace
in the region. And here is the strange part of
his statement. And Netanya who said this too, they said,
because of this attack, I think now we'll be able
(04:14):
to negotiate peace. I don't understand the connection between the
two of those things.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, the connection is that if you kill the leaders,
that at some point that there's nobody left to leave
these animals. But you know something, this is what the
world the jew haters are doing. They're saying, Israel killed
the negotiators, they killed the negotiators, they don't want peace. Well, Larry,
I'll tell you this. On October seventh, those were the
leaders that directed it that caused October seventh. Those are
(04:42):
the leaders that were seen celebrating watching the massacre on TV,
watching women at getting raped, killed, beheaded. They were the
ones celebrating. And there were such peacenicks, these peace negotiators
in Katar that got killed. They were such peacenicks that
the day before yesterday they directed his half assed statements
(05:06):
he should be coming out as as the representative of
the leader of the free world and celebrating the fact
that the people that killed Americans, that that that killed
Americans are dead instead of blaming Israel for shame. Shame
on Trump, shame.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think he's more upset if it is true, which
I see I really really doubt is that he wasn't notified.
But I think he's just trying to distance himself from it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
How he was notified. Yeah, the first thing he did
is he's he directed Witkoff to tell guitars they could
try to stop it. You know, maybe Israel's got to
stop telling America at all because he's because Trump is
acting like he's the leader of France. Listen, Trump's position
on this, just so we're clear, is the same as
(05:59):
the leader of France, is the same as the leader
of the UK is the same as the leader of
North Korea is the same as the leader of Hamas.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hey, Jeffrey, I don't think everybody is where you're at.
I think that you want total destruction. Nobody wants to
know they're not They're people want peace. They're not Jew
haters just because they want peace, just because listen, listen,
you don't think enough. You don't think enough has happened.
(06:30):
You don't think enough. We're gonna be talking over each other,
but you don't think enough has happened already. You don't
think the the destruction of Gaza at this point is enough.
You don't think the decimation of Hamas to the point
where they have to hide now and cutter is enough.
I mean, when is enough? You just want total destruction?
(06:51):
Do you want total destruction? Is that what you want?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah? Can I respond to what you said?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Of course you think that they have to hide in Katar.
They've been hiding there since October seventh. The idea that
we should stop now because the people that did all
this murder in Mayhem haven't surrendered yet. The fact that
they're using human shields in Gaza should be Israel's responsibility. No,
when they surrender, that's when this ends. When we were
(07:21):
having the war, the Second World War and Japan refused
to surrender, we knewked them. That's what we did. And
anybody who's singed in America was all for those bombs
because it ended the war and saved countless life. We
should Israel should not have to apologize for fighting Muslim terror.
Who gives a good goddamn if Gaza is destroyed when
(07:43):
these people still fully back Abbas and backed it on
October seventh and joined in it on October seventh, There
should never be an apology for killing Muslim terror. That's
the reason why they're taking over New York City, Larry,
because this weak response of saying enough is enough. Have peace?
How can you have peace with the people that shot
up a bus the day before? Are they so decimated, Larry,
(08:06):
that they're not capable of shooting up a bus the
day before and killing innocent people? They're clearly not that decimated.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, you got the last word. Jeffrey Lickman, high profile
criminal defense attorneys with us every Wednesday at seven oh five,
Look forward to the next week. Jeffrey
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