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Trump is an Anti-Semite [1]

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Date: 2022-10-17

Some of Trump's "good people"

Let us not mince words. Certainly Yahoo News does not: Donald Trump Is an Antisemite and Republicans Are Totally Cool With It

Well, we knew that, didn’t we? But what triggered this headline was Trump’s Sunday blast:

“No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S. Those living in Israel, though, are a different story – Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.! U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – Before it is too late!”

This is typical anti-Semitic language — American Jews are (or should be) more loyal to Israel than to the US. And this morning the White House called Trump out for it: White House calls Trump’s attack on American Jews antisemitic

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking to reporters in Washington on Monday, said, “Donald Trump has aligned with extremist and antisemitic figures” and that comments like the ones he made Sunday on his social media platform TruthSocial “should be called out.” “Donald Trump’s comments were antisemitic, as you all know, and insulting both to Jews and to our Israeli allies,” she said. “But let’s be clear, for years, for years now, Donald Trump has aligned with extremist and antisemitic figures. … We need to root out antisemitism everywhere it rears its ugly head. We need to call this out. With respect to Israel, our relationship is ironclad and it’s rooted in shared values and interests. Donald Trump clearly doesn’t understand that either.”

Jean-Pierre was sugar-coating it just a bit here. It’s not just that Trump’s “comments were antisemitic,” it’s that he’s antisemitic. Just a few examples:

After Trump excused the Charlottesville neonazis who were shouting “Jews will not replace us” by saying that “there were good people on both side,” Jews In Trump's America Are Being Attacked Post-Charlottesville.

Trump managed to be antisemitic and racist in one breath:

Late last century, Trump reportedly was upset when he saw black people working in the Trump Plaza and Casino accounting department. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day,” he said to John R. O’Donnell, the Trump Plaza president at the time.

That’s from this article — Trump is an anti-Semite. We ignore that to our peril — from 2019, which has lots of other examples.

And then there’s this interview he gave last year, which sings the same song he did yesterday: Trump uses anti-Semitic tropes to again criticize Jewish Americans

Former President Donald Trump, in a newly released interview, claimed that Jewish Americans “either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel,” while also suggesting that evangelical Christians “love Israel more than the Jews in this country.” Trump’s comments are the latest in a series of controversial remarks he has been known to make about Jewish Americans. During his first campaign for president, Trump delivered a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition that was rife with anti-Semitic stereotypes. More recently, he told conservative radio host Ari Hoffman that “Israel literally owned Congress…10 years ago, 15 years ago… and today it’s almost the opposite.”

In that same interview, Trump, who used to think of Bibi as his best friend, has this to say instead:

[T]he former President also said he hasn’t spoken with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since he congratulated Biden on his 2020 victory last November. “F**k him,” Trump said of Netanyahu, according to a report by Axios. “The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with … Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake,” Trump reportedly said.

It’s all and always about him, true. But in the case of the Jews, it’s more than that. He will be nice (in his view) to the Jews only as long as they help him, and even then he slips back into his Mein Kampf mentality.

And not a single Republican has spoken out about it. Will the GOP condemn Trump’s latest antisemitic remark? Of course not.

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