Trump Fires Back at Mamdani: ‘Netanyahu Will Not be Arrested’
Mamdani is itching to arrest Netanyahu.
President Donald Trump said no one will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits New York City in September.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America. He is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American Soldiers, and others. The only ones that should be arrested are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, something that should have been dealt with years ago, by previous Presidents! President DONALD J. TRUMP
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 20, 2026
Anti-Israel NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on arresting Netanyahu.
The mayor has been trying to find legal loopholes to arrest Netanyahu during his visit for the UN General Assembly in September.
“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that it is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.”
Yeah, um, about that “war criminal” declaration against Netanyahu.
The ICC claimed Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians purposely starved people in Gaza, accusing them of “crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.”
Well, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made it obvious that the U.S. does not recognize the ICC’s supposed jurisdiction.
In fact, Rubio declared that the U.S. will dismantle the ICC.
Let’s not forget the scandal-plagued prosecutor.
Anti-Israel ICC prosecutor Karim Khan finds out next week if he keeps his job over sexual assault allegations.
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Shhh, Mr. Trump, let him try.
It’d be a great excuse to charge the mayor of New York with a federal crime.
Charge? Shoot him on sight like the dog he is?
I love dogs. Better to compare him to a rabid dog, which is a more apt comparison.
Tempting, but his “honor” wouldn’t be caught anywhere near the scene. He’d send goons to try the arrest. But it’s all theater. He’s an idiot, but at this point he’s been told in no uncertain terms that doing so would be a federal crime. He’ll posture in front of the cameras and his idiot Israel-hating followers will eat it up.
He wouldn’t be chargeable. Any policeman stupid enough to obey the order would be charged, if he survived. But no policemen are that stupid,
He knows that he has no authority to give the order in the first place, and that it wouldn’t be obeyed if he gave it, so he has never had any intention of giving it.
If he ordered it and a cop tried it:
Conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Solicitation to commit kidnapping.
If someone dies during the attempt, you also get felony murder for a death that occurred during and attempted kidnapping.
Is there anyone out there who could show mercy upon the LI comment threads and permanently block your asinine comments? Maybe some leftist Mayor could arrest you…that would be nice…or maybe you’d emigrate to a muslim country?
Why don’t you take a long walk off a short pier? Have you ever contributed anything of value here?
Or write yourself a greasemonkey script and never have to see my comments.
No I don’t think I will do anything you have suggested. And I don’t think YOU contribute anything of value here just for the record.
One piece of advice: don’t feed the trolls. It just makes them keep coming back for more.
Sigh. Once again, i have to agree with Milhouse’s analysis. Yeah, we don’t have to like it, but his analysis is pretty much spot on. Rather than rebut, you go immediately into personal attack. Great way to have a discussion.
I never appreciate his comments in any way; it’s like listening to NPR or a CNN round table discussion…and very close to The View.
Curly – Milhouse’s legal analysis is usually correct.
The leftist / woke people have some seriously crazy ideas. On the flip side, Milhouse’s responses tend to be very rational responses to some seriously crazy beliefs that are expressed by the far right.
Milhouse is valuable here as a “Point-Counterpoint” element. If you disagree with him (as I often do), make your argument and then, play the ball when it comes back across the net. You can disagree without being disagreeable.
My simple observation is that he takes the wrong position on just about everything; I don’t care how well thought out and intellectual his argument(s) is/are. When you’re wrong…you’re just wrong.
Meh. I’ve seen him go after people’s JOKES. His autistic “nuh uh” schtick gets old after awhile, picking apart everything. Sometimes he’s right, but sometimes he’s just being an asshole.
Legal Insurrection is one of the few places on the internet that, for the most part, is free of annoying moderators, yet, here you are advocating for exactly the opposite because you don’t like what someone has to say.
That’s something a leftist would do.
Insult, demean, intimidate…without ever articulating why the other person’s position is untenable.
All leftist qualities.
I don’t expect you to agree with everything that Millhouse says, but you might want to check your attitude, step away from your peer group, and listen to what he has to say.
You might learn something…
Really? Really?!?? Then you haven’t twigged onto the stealth moderation that goes on here at Legal Insurrection. If you get on a moderator’s (whomever they may be) bad side and are tagged as a trouble maker (or at least someone to watch) any posts you make after that will automatically go into moderation. Thing is, there’s no indication that has happened as long as you’re logged in. As long as you’re logged in it looks as if your posts were made as usual. But log out and poof! Your posts disappear and aren’t available to the LI public at large until presumably a moderator (whomever they may be) approves your post. Then and only then does it become public for all to see.
Stealth Moderation. Legal Insurrection has it. So they aren’t the bastion of free speech you think they are and what they want you to believe.
His comments and analyses are about 95% garbage…just wish he would go find another platform…there’s plenty of them out there…I’ve been around long enough to know when someone is full of excrement and no longer adds value to a conversation or discussion.
I don’t always agree with Mulhouse, but he has well thought out positions. Can you say the same?
It’s akin to green energy…well thought out positions and arguments…but TOTALLY WRONG. That’s Milhouse.
You have lost your mind.
I can’t. Irish said everything I could say.
While you’re correct he won’t give the order he would most certainly be chargeable if he did.
The point is Mamdani gets in the spotlight and his supporters get more screeching opportunities in front of the cameras. Still, he’s such an asshat he might give the order and create chaos with the NYPD backlash.
Yep. Arrest anyone who arrests or attempts to arrest Bibi. Arrest any official who orders his arrest. Charge them with kidnapping. Kidnapping is a federal crime when the victim is a foreign diplomat (foreign leaders have diplomatic immunity when visiting) and because any arrest would involve his eventual movement over a national border. Also, although not strictly a violation of the Logan Act, find a law by which to prosecute the offenders for usurping federal authority over the matter. Even if the US were a signatory to the ICC, the arrest of persons under ICC warrants would be a federal matter, not a State or local matter. State and local officials have no authority to enforce what would effectively be federal law. (When a treaty is ratified, it becomes federal law, except insofar that its provisions are in conflict with the Constitution.)
They need to come down on this like a ton of bricks and make it very clear that if they even try, EVERYBODY at every level will be arrested for even trying – from the cop doing the arrest all the way up to Mamdani.
I know the word get thrown out a lot, but this would be actual, legitimate treason, by working for a foreign organization the US has explicitly rejected and has zero authority, working against the explicit interests of the US.
No, it wouldn’t be treason. The ICC is not an enemy of the USA. There is no state of war between the ICC and the USA.
There would be nothing to charge Mamdani with, or anyone of higher rank than the stupid cop who tried to arrest him. And he would be charged, not with treason but with attempted kidnapping, just as if he tried to arrest any other person for no reason.
The ICC “warrant” has the same status as something issued by a “sovereign citizen” “court”, like the so-called “liens” they purport to issue against various judges’ property. A sheriff trying to execute such a “lien” would be charged with attempted theft.
There you go again… spewing your lies
There you go again, being a complete moron incapable of understanding plain English.
“There would be nothing to charge Mamdani with, or anyone of higher rank than the stupid cop who tried to arrest him. And he would be charged, not with treason but with attempted kidnapping, just as if he tried to arrest any other person for no reason.”
We should make a video explaining this carefully to NYC cops.
Are Slotkin and Kelly still available?
Conspiracy for kidnapping; agreement+ act in furtherance of the crime.
There’s no agreement between the mayor and a cop.
Sure there was. In my hypothetical the Cop followed the directives of his Chain of Command who followed the directive of the Mayor in order to avoid being fired, suspended, disciplined or worse.
You are free to have your own hypothetical where the Cop acted 100% alone b/c he was inspired by the Mayor’s rhetoric and without any specific directive/order to do so.
I don’t think an order to commit what’s obviously a crime would count as a conspiracy. Conspiracy, at least to me, implies actual agreement, not using the lawful chain of command for an order that’s obviously unlawful.
Conspirators have a common purpose. That’s what makes them a conspiracy. What’s the common purpose between the mayor and a beat cop with a >70 IQ?
I have not seen any evidence that the ICC is not an enemy of the United States
Is there a state of war between them? No. Therefore they are not enemies. Enemy is not just a word you can make up meanings for.
Also that’s not how it works; you need evidence that someone is an enemy, not that they are not.
I have not seen evidence that the Boy Scouts are not an enemy of the United States, either.
That’s basically the same logic you just used.
I agree that there’d be no case for treason, but I agree with a previous commenter that conspiracy charges should stick. Maybe even a RICO case.
He may not have done the deed, but if he gave the order, he’s complicit. If he gives the order, I’d bet he’s going to be quite public about it, it’s not going to be hard to prove.
The cops who carry it out can and should be arrested and charged as well. “I was just following orders” is not excuse when the order is clearly illegal. Any cop willing to do it shouldn’t be a cop and absolutely should be held criminally liable for their acts.
Can’t reply directly on the individual comments:
Millhouse: “There’s no agreement between the mayor and a cop.”
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“I don’t think an order to commit what’s obviously a crime would count as a conspiracy. Conspiracy, at least to me, implies actual agreement, not using the lawful chain of command for an order that’s obviously unlawful.”
I believe that would be true to charge the actual perpetrators with conspiracy, but when they are acting under duress (even just the duress of losing their jobs) and didn’t agree to the conspiracy, the boss who ordered the illegal act can still be charged for it. RICO covers this, the concept of “Principal liability” covers it (the boss actually committed the crime, the underling who carried it out was just the tool employed to do so), Solicitation. There are any number of legal theories that could be applied here. And should be if Mamdani actually tries to carry out the threat.
I’d point out to the muslim turd that 1) the court is illegitimate, and 2) even it was Bibi hasn’t been convicted. Therefore calling him a war criminal is libel. Bibi should sue his african ass.
No, it’s not libel, because (a) it’s an opinion, and (b) it’s explicitly based on the ICC “warrant” and not on some secret information that Mamdani might be assumed to have. On top of that, Netanyahu is a public figure.
Can Trump move the UN to Texas?
Cuz well that’d be much more fun.
Well if it has to stay in the US I suggest Chicago, Perhaps they can take the Obama monstrosity by eminent domain and give it the UN to serve as their new headquarters,.
Put them on the north coast of Alaska and see how many UN parasites are still willing to show up.
No, Trump has no authority over the UN, unless and until he abrogates the UN Treaty.
I’d recommend the Gulf of America.
They could have pretty much all the acreage they’d want.
Plus free seafood!
I recommend taking back that prime real-estate and tell the UN to go set up shop at The Hague or anywhere else but on US soil.
Even if Trump were to abrogate the UN Treaty, the real estate would still belong to the UN. Trump couldn’t “take it back” because the USA never owned it. He (or the state or city government) could take it for public use, but only by paying the UN its full market value.
And what would he do with it? I can see Mamdani imposing a special tax to buy the land and put up welfare housing, but I can’t see the state or USA having any use for it.
“Trump couldn’t “take it back” because the USA never owned it. ”
Who owned the plot prior to 1947?
A developer had just recently bought up all the various properties making up the site, but his financing fell through before he could start building. John D. Rockefeller and his son Nelson then bought it from him and donated it to the UN. So it’s now the UN’s property fair and square.
Of course not. No one ever imagined he would be. Trump is posturing, just like Mamdani.
True, but irrelevant.
And yet they’ll be visiting too, and much as they deserve it they won’t be arrested either.
No, he hasn’t. He knows there aren’t any, so there’s no point in looking. His statement to the NYT was pure posturing. He expressed his opinion, to which he is entitled, but he knows very well that what he wants is impossible. He’s evil, not stupid.
The fact that the ICC “warrant” is of no more legal effect than if it were written in crayon and signed “My Mommy” is only one reason why he can’t have him arrested.
A second reason is that even if there were a valid warrant issued by an authority in NY state, he has diplomatic immunity so he still couldn’t be arrested.
And a third is that even without that immunity, the UN Treaty gives automatic immunity to anyone participating in the UN session, which is why none of the Iranian delegation will be arrested either, even if the FBI has warrants out on them.
Mamdani knows all this very well, and has been careful at all times to say that he wouldn’t be going beyond what the law authorizes him to do, knowing well that that means he can’t do anything at all.
Yep, basically just Kabuki Theater to appease his psycho base.
So you admit that Mamdani is just after the theatrics (see your last paragraph above). That’s just what NYC needs: a mayor into theatrics — free buses, free groceries, free daycare, rent control for all, doodidoodidah….That’s just swell, isn’t it?
I don’t “admit” it. I’m saying it loud and clear. Why would that be an “admission” of any kind. “Admission” implies a statement against interest, something said only reluctantly, because one can’t deny it. Why would I be reluctant to say anything against Mamdani?! How would that be in any way against my interest or position?! You can’t possibly be pretending to imagine that I support him in any way, or have any time for him at all!
Oh, and he never said anything about free groceries. He has a low opinion of voters, but he doesn’t think they’re stupid enough to believe something like that.
“Anti-Israel ICC prosecutor Karim Khan finds out next week if he keeps his job over sexual assault allegations.”
I’m getting so tired of living in a Bizarro world where a villain can cheat, steal, oppress, imprison, and commit mass murder, but the only way to get him offstage is always to hire some slut to wet her handkerchief in a witness box.
We have a two-weir justice system where the upper tier has only one real crime defined. And ironically, it’s rarely actually real whenever it gets claimed.
Since when did the mayor of a city have the authority to arrest a head of state/Prime Minister/President/etc? He should be arrested himself for being a putz and a coward…and for not knowing his place…stay in your lane, butthead.
Nice to know President Trump backs Netanyahu. Muslim throwing his weight around, he isn’t going to do it so who will?
Poor Mamdopey can’t follow through on his “campaign promise” to arrest Netanyahu. Never. mind the idiots who voted for him actually thought he could? I guess being Mayor of NYC doesn’t make you a king afterall, what a disappointment, you actually have to abide by like rules and stuff. Maybe after he confiscates private property, seizes the reigns of production and taxes everyone to death in NYC he can find a way to rerwrite the constitution to install himself as a permament dictator? Now that’s what the voters want! Resist!
I don’t think he ever actually promised to arrest him. It was more an aspirational thing; that he wished he could have him arrested.
It’s like that free bus thing. As best as I recall he never actually promised free buses, since he knew the mayor doesn’t have the power to do that. What he said (to the best of my recollection) is that he would try to persuade the MTA to make buses free. I assume he’s already done that in private, and the MTA told him no.
He’s making vague statements about talking to lawyers, inquiring, that sort of nonsense. It’s red meat for his delusional base, and manoman they are EATING IT UP. I spent entirely too much time on X yesterday (which is more than zero time) seeing waves of leftist dumbasses cheering, and most of them really thought he could do it.
He says he’s in an “active conversation” with the city’s Law Department. If that means anything at all, which it probably doesn’t, the “active conversation” would go:
“There’s no possible way I can have him arrested, is there?”
“No, there isn’t.”
“Okay, that’s what I thought.”
Or “No, there isn’t.”
“But I really really want to.”
“And I really want to sleep with <Insert Name Here>, but that’s not going to happen either.”
Oh, so Mamdani didn’t “promise.” Phew. That changes everything. Rich stuff, Milhouse.
Huh? What are you on about now? What is your point, if any?