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Trump Accuses Jewish Americans Who Vote Democrat Of Disloyalty
The president told reporters that Democratic Jewish Americans show a great disloyalty, despite 79% of them voting Democrat in the 2018 midterms.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Jewish people in the U.S. who vote for members of the Democratic Party are not loyal.
I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or a great disloyalty, he told reporters when speaking about Israel barring Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), two lawmakers who have been critical of the Israeli government, from entering.
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President Trump on Rep. Tlaib: "Yesterday, I notice for the first time, Tlaib with the tears. All of a sudden, she starts with tears. I don't buy it
I've seen her in a very viscous mood at campaign rallies...I saw a woman that was violent and vicious and out of control."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jewish-americans-democrat-disloyalty_n_5d5c4ee2e4b0f667ed69c755
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)BTW, if Ivanka's being held out as the All-American Jew, I'm just as happy being something else.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,267 posts)If any Dem said that, the russiapublican white supremacists would be all over the news accusing the Dems of being anti-semitic.
Dump is attacking American Jews.
Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)encourages these white terrorists into doing what they're doing. Does no one in trump's inner circle ever tell him to shut his pie hole?
still_one
(92,187 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)He knows his base isn't enough and he's resorting to the lowest, demented tactics to shame and frighten people into voting for him. I think he's finally into an irreversible downward spiral. He'll be in a straightjacket by December.
RelativelyJones
(898 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)in so many ways.
Can't wait for the backlash, though it will mean nothing to him.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Just vote loyally, like Stephen Miller, and Laura Loomer.
irisblue
(32,971 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)it appears to be a C-Span error. (I sacrificed my ears and brain listened to the tape, since my reaction was the same as yours)
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)There will no doubt still be some Jews voting for him, but outside of Sheldon Adelson and the Kushner family, I can't imagine who they might be.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Media folks: Just for a moment, stop and think what the President of the United States is saying here and elsewhere: He's branding not just the media as enemies of the people, he's identifying discrete segments of the population as disloyal to the United States. We've already seen scores of individuals who have taken this rhetoric as a call to arms, and who have taken it upon themselves to carry out the President's orders. Yes, after the fact, sometimes, Trump says that his words were not intended to spark yet another massacre. Then he goes right out and says the same thing all over again, with the same sequelae. You even had a newspaper office shot up by a deranged man activated by Trump's rhetoric. You're not immune; in fact, you and your workplace could be next. Again.
What's it going to take for the media to stand up for the country? Its citizens? Themselves?
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)Takket
(21,563 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)his aces up his sleeve were Jared and Ivanka.
ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)peggysue2
(10,828 posts)This an outrageous comment. The idea that a president would single out a group of Americans and call them disloyal because of their voting preferences is totally unAmerican. It certainly fits the pattern with Trump and his enablers. And the comment about 'lack of knowledge' is laughable. Trump is the most ignorant, ill-informed person to ever squat in the White House.
He deserves full condemnation for this statement.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)He worships ole Adolf and still gets that many votes.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)And the Trumpies welcoming said bigots with open arms, Jews should vote Republican?
For that matter if I were a Mormon, Id favor my Church walking away from the Trump-publican party, too.