Trump Planned on Moving Embassy to Jerusalem ‘At 12:01 on Inauguration Day’

Forty-eight hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the White House for his first meeting with President Donald Trump, a senior Republican senator explained in an interview published on Monday how the Trump administration originally planned to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on the president’s very first day in office – but then took a step back, mainly due to the possible regional implications of such a move.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN,) the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in an interview to Politico’s Global Podcast that Trump at one point was “ready to move the embassy at 12:01 on January 20th. Maybe even 12 and thirty seconds.” Corker added that announcing the relocation of the embassy “was going to be their first move,” but that ever since entering the White House, Trump’s team has been going through an evolution and “they get a greater sense of some of the complexities that exist.”‘
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