WASHINGTON D.C.
The United States has vehemently denied an alleged leak of an explosive transcript of a conversation between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“It’s complete crap,” Marie Harf, the deputy State Department spokeswoman, told reporters on Wednesday. “That's a technical term there.”
The alleged transcript was released by Israel’s Channel 1 News, whose reporter said the transcript was obtained from a senior American official.
During their report, Channel 1 says Obama addresses Netanyahu in a "rude, condescending and hostile manner" and tells him that Israel is not in a position to choose mediators in the ongoing Gaza conflict.
Both Netanyahu’s office and the U.S.’s National Security Council tweeted identical statements after the report was published on Tuesday, which said: “We have seen reports of an alleged POTUS-Netanyahu transcript; neither reports nor alleged transcript bear any resemblance to reality."
“Shocking and disappointing someone would sink to misrepresenting a pvt convo between POTUS and PM in fabrications to Israeli press.”
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