The American President seems like he going off the hook….
In attacking Jews,Democratic in particular?
He may jettisoning more votes….
And showing more religious intolerance…
President Trump said Tuesday that Jewish people who vote for Democrats are either ignorant or disloyal as he railed against two congresswomen who have been critical of the U.S.-Israel alliance.
“I think Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with the president of Romania.
Trump and the GOP have sought to win over Jewish voters from the Democratic Party by criticizing statements by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. Both have criticized Israel’s government.
Trump last week urged Israel to block Tlaib and Omar from visiting the country, saying in a tweet that allowing the visit would show “great weakness.” An hour after Trump’s tweet, Israel denied the congresswomen entry.
But in stating that Jewish people who voted for Democrats were disloyal, Trump appeared to step into the same verbal quagmire about Jewish loyalty to the Israeli state that had drawn criticism to Omar earlier this year.
Omar took heat for remarks that suggested to some that Jewish Americans were more loyal to Israel than the United States.
Trump’s comments came as he accused Tlaib and Omar of hating Israel and the Jewish people, and he complained that Democrats should also be criticizing them….
Disloyalty? An anti-Semitic trope and I am sure he doesn’t even know it. Let’s ask Ivanka.
At least he didn’t pull a Nixon and say that the Jews are out to destroy America.
Yeah ..then there are those taped conversations with Right Wing religious hero Billy Graham (whose son, Franklin, is one of Trumps biggest worshippers.).
You know,”God sent Trumps this save us.”Can one just imagine the total cynicism in that statement?
And Republican will sit silent whike their leader calls 80% of Ameeucsn Jews “disloyal”.
Yes….
The guy doesn’t know when to stop…..
President Trump has adopted a curious strategy for courting Jewish Democrats to the Republican side: He’s attacking them.
Over the past 48 hours, Trump has suggested Jewish Americans are ill informed on policy for siding overwhelmingly with Democrats and “disloyal” to Israel for opposing his presidency.
“In my opinion, if you vote for a Democrat you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people and you’re being very disloyal to Israel,” he said Wednesday at the White House, amplifying similar remarks he made a day earlier. “And only weak people would say anything other than that.”
Yet prominent Jewish Democrats say Trump’s criticism of the very bloc he’s seeking to woo — and his invocation of anti-Semitic tropes as part of that message — will only alienate Jewish voters heading into 2020.
“He’s totally blown away that all his pandering to the hard right of American Jewish politics on Israel is not winning him any support among American Jews. In fact, it’s backfiring,”….
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