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Donald is all about rooting out antisemitism. Yeah, right. [1]
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Date: 2025-05-27
Donald is making a big stink about bashing Harvard University over the issue of antisemitism, or at least the claim that Harvard, which has a Jewish president, Alan Garber, is soft on antisemitism.
Donald also would like to espouse the “unitary executive theory” under which EVERYTHING that goes on in the Executive Branch is according to his will. He gets to call ALL the shots and the REAL BUCKS stop at his desk. Those other “bucks”? Like the ones Harry S Truman talked about? Not so much.
So guess what? Look who just got promoted to press secretary at the Pentagon.
Her name is Kingsley Wilson.
As long ago as March 6, 2025, Military.com called out Kingsley Wilson in an article titled “Pentagon's No. 2 Spokesperson Has Long History of Antisemitic, Bigoted Social Media Posts”.
www.military.com/…
Then the Military.com article says:
Military.com reached out to the defense secretary's office on Wednesday with a lengthy list of more than a dozen of Wilson's posts for comment or context. By publication, there was no response, and the posts remain up on her X profile.
Well, the Pentagon has now provided a response.
They doubled down.
As reported in the Washington Post today (May 27, 2025)
www.washingtonpost.com/…
Kingsley Wilson, an acting Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement that since … Wilson said Hegseth’s office has “begun onboarding additional political appointees to assist with Mr. Parnell’s expanded portfolio.” She did not elaborate. … On Friday, Parnell also said that Wilson will become the next Pentagon press secretary. Since joining the administration, she has been dogged by scrutiny of her past commentary on social media, including a claim she made last year that the “Great Replacement” theory— which baselessly posits there is an organized plan to overwhelm predominantly Western countries with immigrants — “isn’t a right-wing conspiracy theory... it’s reality.” Wilson also has drawn backlash for a social media post attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him an “entitled midget,” and for insisting that Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched by a mob in 1915, had “raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl.” He was later pardoned, and historians generally believe he was the victim of antisemitism. She has not responded to questions about her past comments, which have been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee.
I guess one could paraphrase the Pentagon response to Military.com as “Shove it.” And of course, Donald, as the unitary executive, must be on board with that, right?
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