President Donald Trump now realizes that attempting to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal is futile, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Monday.

Holt said on “Wake Up America”  that Trump is “shifting from Let’s try to get a ceasefire agreement, let’s work out something diplomatically. He’s been at that since Inauguration Day, and it is a very noble effort to try to do it that way, to try to get as many hostages back.”

But Holt stressed that the president now realizes “that this is a rescue mission” for the hostages and that “there is no negotiating with these terrorists.”

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