Amid US election battles, former President Donald Trump and current running candidate addressed a roomful of donors, which he joked included "98 percent of my Jewish friends," vowing to expel student protesters from the US and crush pro-Palestine protests on US campuses, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York, The Washington Post reported. 

The donors revealed that Trump said on May 14, "One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave."

In opposition to what Trump was saying, The Post reported that one of the donors said that many of these students and professors taking part in these protests could one day hold positions of power in the US, which Trump responded to by labeling them as part of a "radical revolution", which he promises to defeat. 

Trump did not stop there, but he rather praised the New York Police Department for clearing the campus at Columbia University by cracking down on students and called on other cities to do the same, stressing that "it has to be stopped now."

It is noteworthy that US police were seen in multiple videos being violent with the protesters amid an intense crackdown on the peaceful protests.

Whatever it takes to land that presidency 

Getting to his actual point, the donors said that Trump added, "Well, if you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years."

Keeping in mind that in recent months, major Republican donors have lobbied Trump to take a firmer stance in support of "Israel", The Washington Post said that this meeting provides a deeper view into Trump's current thinking as he told wealthy donors in the meeting that he supports "Israel's" right to proceed with "its war on terror" and then showcased his White House policies toward "Israel". 

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He repeatedly listed to the donors everything he claimed he had done for "Israel" during his presidency, from transferring the US embassy to al-Quds, recognizing the occupied Syrian Golan heights, and bucking decades of US policy. 

"So I did Golan Heights. You know that’s worth $2 trillion, they said, that piece, if you put it in real estate terms. But it’s worth more than that. It is," Trump said, according to donors present.

Securing his bid, Trump said that in Washington and mainly in Congress, "Israel is losing its power," emphasizing that "it's incredible", and claiming that this is why "Israel" needs his help as his demonstrations are more crowded than those happening in support of "Israel". 

The Washington Post said that Trump's campaign did not respond to detailed questions about its reporting, but the campaign's national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an email, "When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end."

Contrary to his previous statements on how "Israel" should "wrap up" its war, Trump told the donors in the meeting that he supports "Israel's right" to continue its war on Gaza. 

Appealing to Jewish Americans 

Trump expressed his annoyance multiple times over Jewish Americans not voting for him as much as he thinks they should, The Washington Post reported, based on what the donors said. 

Slamming democrats, he said, "But how can a Jewish person vote for a Democrat, and Biden in particular — but forget Biden. They always let you down." 

The Post also said that multiple influential Republican donors, one of whom is Miriam Adelson, have urged Trump to publicly show support not only for "Israel" but also for Netanyahu, who Trump has been on bad terms with for a while until recent attempts of rekindling the relationship took place, one of which was some of his major allies recently visiting occupied Palestine for meetings with Netanyahu and other officials. 

Trump also claimed at the donor routable that he studies Jewish history and gave this moment in US history several thoughts. 

"And you know, you go back through history, this is like just before the Holocaust. I swear. If you look, it’s the same thing," he said.

"You had a weak president or head of the country. And it just built and built. And then, all of a sudden, you ended up with Hitler. You ended up with a problem like nobody knew," Trump added.