Trump’s sanctions on ICC protects US military and government officials, says former NSC official

Jerusalem – President Donald TrumpAn executive order that sanctioned the International Criminal Court based in The Hague (ICC) will prevent the sliding slope of US military and government officials facing criminal prosecution from a vague court bureaucracy in the Netherlands, claims critics of the global criminal body.

Richard Goldberg, former Trump official who served in his first national security council, told Fox News Digital: “This is a critical first step in defense of US soldiers and officials from further law that are illegally guided by radical anti -American on what has become International Kangario Court.

Goldberg, Senior Democracy Defense Advisor, added: “These ICC officials crossed the line, entered the battlefield against the United States and Israel by perverted international law and using it as a war council tool. The president. ladder.

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ICC fired in a statement and said that “condemns the issuance by the US from an executive command that wants to impose sanctions on its officials and harm its independent and impartial court work. The court firmly stands from its staff and promises to continue justice justice and hopefully millions of innocent victims of crimes around the world, in all situations before him.

Trump signed Executive Command Punning ICC On Thursday, in response to an arrest warrant in May 2024. For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoava Gallant.

Netanyahu praised the order in a statement. “Thank you, President Trump for your bold ICC Executive Command. He will defend America and Israel against anti-American and anti-Sametic corrupt courts that has no jurisdiction or basis for participating in laws against us. .

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday that Trump’s sanctions on the ICC were “absolutely understandable”. He added that the ICC became a “biased political tool” and that the Central European country assessed cooperation with the ICC.

Goldberg said: “The president did not want to wait at Schumer’s games to work. Muns Senate Democrats blocked the law of the law, it was a guarantee that you would see the executive order. But if Schumer now says he supports the command, Senate Senate Republicans should go quickly to make it codified and forced Schumer to vote. “

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The dozens of countries expressed their “unwavering support” on Friday, the day after Trump approved the potentially far-reaching economic and travel sanctions against the court’s staff.

“We again confirm our continuous and unwavering support of independence, impartiality and integrity of the ICC,” a group of almost 80 countries said in a joint statement. “The court serves as a vital pillar of the international judicial system, providing responsibility for the most serious international crimes and justice for the victims.”

The signatories came from all parts of the world, but make up only about two -thirds out of 125 Member States permanent judgment For the persecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crime of aggression.

Among the countries that agreed to the statement were France, Germany and Britain. Among those who were absent were Australia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Italy.

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Goldberg said that “the president did not want to wait at Schumer’s games to work. At the moment when Democrats of Senate blocked the bill, there was a guarantee that you would see the executive order. But if Schumer now says he supports the command, Senate Senate Republicans should go quickly as would codify it and force Schumer to vote. “

Senate minority leader Senator Chuck Schumer, D-Dy., Torpedored the Law Proposal that led the GOP to sanction ICC in January.

Reuters and Fox News’ Diana Stancy contributed to this article