President Donald Trump called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s yearslong corruption trial to be “CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY,” on Wednesday afternoon.

Netanyahu has been accused of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in a trial lasting four years that Trump called a “witch hunt.”

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The president said he and Netanyahu “just went through HELL together” during the war with Iran, for which Trump helped mediate a ceasefire: “The result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World.”

“Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, politically motivated case in order to do him great harm,” he continued.

Trump believes Netanyahu, whom he hailed as a “Great War Time” prime minister, worked harmoniously with the United States in the war, adding that “it was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.”

Netanyahu has been accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of cigars and champagne.

In response to the allegations that he accepted those gifts, the prime minister told a court he “never gets to consistently smoke [his] cigars,” according to the Jerusalem Post, adding, “I am always interrupted. By the way, I hate champagne.”

His lawyer has said prosecutors “weren’t investigating a crime, they were going after a person” in Netanyahu, who detailed to the court his work as prime minister.

“I have been waiting for eight years for this moment to tell the truth,” Netanyahu told the three-judge court, according to Middle East Eye. “But I am also a prime minister. … I am leading the country through a seven-front war. And I think the two can be done in parallel.”

“I work 17, 18 hours a day,” Netanyahu said in the courtroom, per the Times of London. “Everyone who knows me knows this. That’s how I work. I eat my meals at my work table. It’s not cordon bleu. It’s not waiters coming with white gloves.”

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Trump and the administration have complained about reports that the U.S. bombing of Iran did not completely destroy the nuclear facilities they targeted.

“Based on everything we’ve seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement addressing the reporting. Trump shared Hegseth’s statement on Truth Social.