President Trump says that none of the former Hamas hostages he’s spoken to said anyone in Gaza ever showed any kindness. Many of the hostages came to my office in the Oval Office, and I was amazed,” Trump said. “I would ask them the question: was there any sign of love?” Trump says he asked the freed hostages: “Did they ever wink at you and say, like, don’t worry, you’re gonna be OK? Did they ever give you some extra food, even if it was a piece of bread? Did they ever give you anything during that time?” “You see it in the movies where somebody’s a prisoner, and somebody’s helping. You even see it with Germany, where people would be led into a house and live in an attic in secret. You know, you see signs,” Trump commented. “The hatred is just incredible.”

DONALD TRUMP: Israel has a lot of responsibility. They’re hampered by the fact that you still have 20 hostages or so. And the people of Israel are very concerned about the 20 hostages. It’s very interesting. You could say they could be more concerned about retribution than the 20 hostages, but they really want the hostages to survive and live-to make it, you know. Many of the hostages came to my office in the Oval Office, and I was amazed by-I would ask them the question: was there any sign of love? Was there any sign of, when you were a hostage and you have all of these people from Hamas around you-sometimes hundreds, sometimes ten, sometimes two-but you’re a hostage and you’re being stored in a pipe. It’s not even really, you know, a cave, it’s a pipe. A little pipe. And some said they didn’t think they were gonna make it because they were losing air. There wasn’t enough air. And they’d opened up the pipe just in time. But they didn’t do it on purpose. They just happened to open-it-they got lucky. But I said: did they ever wink at you and say like, “Don’t worry, you’re gonna be OK”? Did they ever give you some extra food, even if it was a piece of bread? Did they ever give you anything during that time? And some said, “We were there for four or five hundred days now,” right? It’s a long time. A year and a half-more than that. And not one person said there was any love from anybody. You know, in other words, you have hundreds of people-and you see it in the movies where somebody’s a prisoner, somebody’s helping. You even see it with Germany, where people would be led into a house and live in an attic in secret. You know, you see signs of some… I said: did you see anything like-did they wink at you? Did they say, “Don’t worry, you’re gonna be OK”? I never received-I ask that question all the time-I’ve never received one answer that said, “Yeah, they really wanted to help.” No. The hatred is just incredible. Yeah.

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