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Sen. Bernie Moreno Attacks Sen. Chuck Schumer [1]
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Date: 2025-04-07
+U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno– An Ohioan GOPer “With Egyptian Principles” Attacks Democratic Leader Senator Chuck Schumer April 6, 2025
When President Nixon appointed Henry Kissinger Secretary of State in 1973, reporters stated that he was the first Jewish American to hold that post. However, at that time, I remember several people who wrote letters to the editors of major newspapers saying that this fact was not true. They argued that the first Jew appointed to the post of Secretary of State was actually Judah P. Benjamin. He was appointed during the Civil War in March, 1862 by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to that position. Benjamin, formerly a U.S. Senator from Louisiana, was a vocal advocate of African American slavery. Before being elected to the U.S. Senate,he became a successful attorney in Louisiana and bought a sugar plantation there. He purchased 140 slaves to work that plantation, Bellechasse (wiki, Catton, “American Heritage Picture History of The Civil War,” 1960). Benjamin developed a friendship with fellow Mississippi U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis. When he left the U.S. Senate to head the Confederacy, Davis first appointed Benjamin Attorney General and then Secretary of War before putting him at State. After the Confederacy’s defeat and surrender, Benjamin successfully escaped capture by fleeing to England where he, once again, had a distinguished legal career. Benjamin’s leading advocacy for the Confederacy caused a lot of prominent Northerners to heap scorn upon him. One of them was the famous New England orator and U.S. Senator Daniel Webster. Webster was reported to have called Benjamin “an Israelite with Egyptian principles.” Translation: a Jew whose ancestors had been enslaved out of hatred by Egyptian Pharaohs in Biblical times who believed in subjecting Blacks in the U.S. to that very same horrible status (See Pessin, D., “History of the Jews,” & “History of the Jews in America”).
Let’s now flash forward to 21st Century America, 2025 to the beginning of Demagogue/Dictator wannabe Donald’s second term. One of the Senators who rode Donald’s coattails to victory in November, 2024, was Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH). Sen. Moreno (58) referred to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as a “Fuhrer” during a conversation with reporters during the first week of April, 2025. “Fuhrer,” of course, is the German term for “leader.” German dictator and tyrant Adolf Hitler, who was responsible for the extermination of 6 million Jews during WWII known as the Holocaust, proudly used the term “Fuhrer” to apply to himself. In discussing the way to pass Trump’s tax cuts, Moreno told reporters outside the Senate chamber, “Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders (Eaton, S., cleveland.com, 4/05/25).” No, Sen. Moreno. GOPers are the sheep who follow Donald in lockstep. Democrats are the party of independent individuals who repeatedly criticize Schumer and all their other leaders. When asked about Moreno’s “Fuhrer” term, Sen. Schumer, who is the highest ranking Jewish person in the U.S. government, aptly called Moreno’s “Fuhrer” comment about him, “Antisemitic, plain and simple.” Schumer added, “It’s outrageous. I lost lots of people in the Holocaust to Hitler.” Schumer rightly demanded that Moreno apologize immediately for his statements, and for Moreno’s GOP colleagues to also denounce him “on something so blatantly antisemitic (Eaton).” In his most recently published and excellent book titled, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” Schumer movingly spoke of how his great-grandmother Frima, for whom his sister Fran was named, was machined-gunned by the Nazis along with more than 30 other members of her family aged three months to eighty-five years in Eastern Europe (Schumer, 2025, with Molofsky, J.). So far, I don’t see a huge outcry by the GOP condemning Moreno’s awful “Fuhrer” comment. Just who is this Bernie Moreno?
After JD Vance resigned to take office as Donald’s VP, Bernie Moreno became OH’s senior senator. A native of Bogota, Colombia, Moreno is the son of a physician who held high-ranking positions in the Colombian government. At the age of five, Bernie Moreno moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His father worked as a surgical assistant while his mother was a real estate agent. Bernie Moreno became a naturalized U.S. citizen at age 18 ( cleveland.com/news , Tobias, A.J., 10/15/23). His brother Luis Alberto Moreno is a former Colombian Ambassador to the U.S. (thehill.com, Smyth & Goodman, 7/28/24). Bernie Moreno graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor’s degree in business administration ( elon.edu/u/news , 4/23/15). After graduation, Moreno worked at General Motors. He went to Massachusetts to become the general manager of a car dealership for the GM division Saturn (White, C., 5/01/15). In 2005, Moreno moved to Ohio and bought a Mercedes-Benz dealership in North Olmsted near Cleveland. Moreno became the president of the Collection Auto Group, a car dealership company, and by 2016, he owned more than a dozen dealerships, mainly located in OH. In 2019, he began selling a number of his dealerships to focus on his new blockchain-based technology company, “Ownum” ( cleveland.com/business/2011 , Schoenberger,R., 12/24/11, Bamforth, E., 4/04/19, cleveland.com). Moreno was elected to the Cleveland Business Hall of Fame (clevelandmagazine.com).
In 2023, Moreno settled over a dozen wage theft lawsuits before launching his 2024 Senate campaign. He was ordered to pay over $400,000 to two former employees. He was also rebuked by a state judge for shredding documents potentially related to the case (Metzger, B., businessinsider.com, 1/19/24). A March 2024 report found that Moreno had faced two lawsuits alleging gender and age-based discrimination. Moreno’s campaign stated that both of these employees who had sued him supported his Senate campaign (apnews.com,1/17/24).
On March 19, 2024, Moreno won the GOP primary defeating two other prominent GOPers. Donald had endorsed Moreno (nytimes.com, Bender, M., 12/19/23, Bowden, J., 3/20/24, independent.co.uk/news ). In the 11/2024 general election, Moreno defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown 50.09%-46.47%, a 3.62% margin (2024 OH U.S. Senate Race). During the general election campaign, the crypto industry spent more than $40 million in support of Moreno, because Brown was considered hostile to them (Khalili, J., 2/28/25, wired.com).
In the current 119th Congress, Sen. Moreno serves on four major Senate committees: Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs, Budget, Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs(wiki). And here is where Sen. Moreno stands on some key issues. In many of them, he has switched his position or flip-flopped to the side of the hard right. Moreno now opposes abortion. In a 2022 interview, he called himself “Absolute pro-life, no exceptions (Valentine, J., 3/0724).” In 2023, Moreno gave $100,000 against OH’s abortion rights referendum, one that voters passed (See Zuckerman, J., 3/31/23). However, in a 2024 debate, Moreno stated he was in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and when the woman’s life is in danger (nbcnews.com, 2/23/24). In that same debate, Moreno expressed support for access to contraception (Sanderson, E., wlwt.com, 3/18/24). He later expressed opposition to the Right to Contraception Act and stated he would have voted with GOPers in Congress to block that bill. He supports a federal 15-week ban on abortions (Gomez, H., 2/23/24). Moreno initially expressed support for the LGBT community and sponsored the hosting of the 2014 Gay Games in Cleveland and Akron. However, when he ran for the Senate, he accused supporters of LGBT rights of “advancing a radical agenda of indoctrination (AP, 3/14/24).” In 2016, Moreno initially expressed support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but now advocates deporting them (Bemiller, H., 3/20/24, eu.cincinnati.com). He is against supporting Ukraine in the war that Russia started against that country. He initially supported Israel and said it needed to “end Hamas.” After the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, Moreno argued that Israel did not need any additional funding from the U.S.(Evans, N., 10/16/23, ohiocapitaljournal.com, 10/16/23). In 2016, Moreno described Trump as a “lunatic invading the Republican Party” and in the 2016 election, wrote in a vote for Marco Rubio (cnn.com, Kaczynski & Steck, 2/02/24). In 2024, Moreno stated he “wore with honor” his endorsement by Trump for his Senate run (spectrumnews1.com, 2/24/24). After the 2020 presidential election, Moreno first criticized those denying the results, but in 2021 stated that he believed the election had been “stolen (Kaczynski & Steck, 2/02/24).” In 2019, Moreno expressed support for background checks for gun owners, but in 2024 when he ran for the Senate, his campaign stated that that was “unequivocally” not his position today (Bemiller). You get the idea.
Again, Moreno should have known better about calling Schumer a “Fuhrer.” His daughter Emily converted to Judaism to marry Jewish GOP Ohio U.S. Cong. Max Miller.Their wedding ceremony was held at Trump’s NJ golf club. That couple have a one-year-old daughter, but are now getting divorced. In 2021, Moreno told the “Jewish Insider” newspaper that he was “very proud” of his daughter for converting to Judaism. In early 2025, Moreno wrote a letter to Cuyahoga County (where Cleveland is located) Council President Dale Miller that denounced the council for tolerating antisemitic remarks at a meeting (Eaton, S., cleveland.com, 4/05/25). Shame, shame, shame, Sen. Moreno for your attack on Sen. Schumer!
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