https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-trump-netanyahu-in-oval-office-were-having-direct-talks-with-iran/
Trump: Well, I can’t really say that, but I think it will be different and maybe a lot stronger.
[The president returns to the issue of the hostages.] But they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out. I had people right in this office, this beautiful Oval Office, they came in, ten people, hostages, you know that. And I said to them, so how was it? And the stories they told me, as an example: I said to them, was there any sign of love? You were there, ten people. It’s only ten, but it’s pretty representative. Did the Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you?
Did they wink at you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like you think of doing — like what happened in Germany, happened elsewhere, people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress.
They said no. I said all of them.
I said, did they ever wink at you, like you’ll be okay. You’re going to be okay. No, they didn’t do that. They’d slap us. The hatred is unbelievable and the lives, you know they lived in a pipe, not really a tunnel, it was a pipe. And they always thought they were suffocating, they were going to suffocate. And then they’d open up the pipe and it was like three and a half feet high. This isn’t, you know, we hear tunnels, bad, but pipes are worse. And the stories I heard were incredible. But I just said, was there
any sign of potential love or affection? And there were none whatsoever. It was amazing to me. There was nothing like, here take this, just a little extra meal or something. They lived like hell.
I don’t know. They seemed to be, they were amazing to me, because they seemed to be pretty normal. They weren’t scarred, but I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred. And one was there for three hundred fifty-six days, another was there for about one hundred and eighty days, a long time. And these are people that have been really, really horribly treated. I’ve never seen anything like it, actually. I was very surprised to hear the answer.
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