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In response to a question on Wednesday morning about how long Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, will hold on before re-starting strikes on Iran, Trump said: “He’s fine. He’ll do whatever I want him to do.”

Trump also cited a poll that gave him 99% approval in Israel. Guardian US has not yet verified this poll.

Donald Trump wants a party in his own image and likeness. He does not tolerate dissent. The president of the United States enforces his will with an iron fist to control Republicans. He has gradually sidelined every rebellious congressman and senator who ignored his orders or opposed his wishes. This Tuesday he offered another example. Ed Gallrein, a nondescript 68-year-old farmer and former member of the Navy SEALs who ran a low-key campaign, defeated Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who had challenged Trump.

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Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger.

Ed Gallrein, a retired navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a primary election in Kentucky’s fourth congressional district in what the president’s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today’s Republican party.