The post, written by David Schoen — who defended Trump in his 2021 Senate impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 attack — went up on Truth Social at 7:58 a.m. Friday, within hours of the Norwegian Nobel Committee's announcement in Oslo, and was reposted by the president to his 10 million followers shortly afterward.
"Today the Nobel Committee shamed itself beyond repair and demeaned the once great Nobel Peace Prize by giving it to the UN's Navi Pillay," Schoen wrote. "Pillay is an unabashed hater of America and Israel. In her position she celebrated terrorists and rewarded Hamas. She conducted a phony 'investigation' claiming to find that Israel committed genocide and urging prosecution. She has no credibility in any normal sphere and has never done a thing to foster peace. Just the opposite. But what could be expected from a committee that previously gave the once-coveted peace prize to Yasser Arafat?"
The post, which neglected to note that Arafat, the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader and former terrorist, had been awarded the prize jointly in 1994 along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for their work together on the Oslo Accords, then pivoted to the man Schoen believed should have won — his former client.
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