President Donald Trump “offered to help facilitate a negotiation that would have prevented” Israel’s strikes on Iran and “in a very calculated way, uses the collective ‘we’ to align the United States with Israel,” Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, told Newsmax Wednesday.

“I think Iran was used to the idea that America would always stand in the way of Israel attacking Iran. And what you saw is President Trump basically said, ‘Yeah, I’m going to get out of the way,'” Davidson, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on “Newsline.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “been wanting to hit Iran hard. And so, Netanyahu did, in fact, do that. … President Trump, in a very calculated way, uses the collective ‘we’ to align the United States with Israel. But even the Ayatollah’s statement makes clear he understands that America isn’t directly attacking Iran. And I think he’s very wisely choosing not to directly attack the United States,” he added.

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