This is what DJT actually said, in full context:
“Two nights ago, I read all of Biden’s security people, can you imagine, national defense people, and they said, ‘Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack from the north, because that’s the most vulnerable spot,’ ” Trump told the crowd. “I said, ‘Wait a minute.’ You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart.”
Trump then appeared to claim that Israeli defense officials had made the same public observation — in his view, prompting the Hezbollah attack.
“They have a national defense minister or somebody saying, ‘I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack us from the north.’ So the following morning, they attacked,” Trump said.
“They might not have been doing it, but if you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north, because he said that’s our weak spot,” the former president went on. “Whoever heard of officials saying on television that they hope the enemy doesn’t attack in a certain area?”
It could have been a briar bush.