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... if Biden had done this they would be screaming blue bloody murder.
Sure, because he is the President, and belongs to ostensibly the "Left-wing party". Trump can't send them bombs. Trump can't protect them from others intervening to stop their genocide.
Trump doesn't actually have any leverage to move Netanyahu either direction, and anyone who is being honest knows Netanyahu has had no intention of ending this any time soon, so Trump was just telling him to do what he already planned to.
The scandal here has, in reality, nothing to do with Gaza, and everything to do with the US election. Trump attempting to take any action that violates the Logan Act in order to help in the election is an attempt to subvert democracy.
The fact that he chose to violate the Logan Act just to tell someone not to do something they had no plans to, just speaks to his idiocy.
If he is giving a foreign head of state reassurance that US policy will change if he wins, he is also subverting US policy. This is far from a nothingburger.