Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, told Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren that, regarding the peace deal in Israel, “this would not have happened if it hadn’t been for Donald Trump.” Newsmax reports:

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Newsmax on Friday that President Donald Trump deserves singular credit for brokering the Gaza peace deal, arguing the president’s unique combination of credibility in Jerusalem and “force of personality” made the outcome possible.

“I think you’ve got to face it — and this will drive everybody nuts — but this would not have happened if it hadn’t been for Donald Trump. There’s no question about it,” Johnson said in an in-studio appearance on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

He told Van Susteren that Trump “put the hard word on both sides” — pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when right-wing rivals threatened to scuttle a compromise and scaring Hamas into relinquishing its chief lever, the hostages.

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