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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump suggests anti-Semitic threats across U.S. are coming from within Jewish community
This was Feb 2017.
President Trump condemned the wave of bomb threats that have been hitting Jewish community centers across the U.S. during his address to Congress Tuesday night hours after he allegedly suggested it could be coming from within the Jewish community itself.
"Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms," Trump said at the beginning of his address.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-suggests-jewish-community-spreading-anti-semitic-threats-article-1.2984866
FarPoint
(14,942 posts)I often ask, " Why do people even post his drooling smut? ".
vlyons
(10,252 posts)all of which are lies and bullshit. Don't repeat his trash.
es466
(134 posts)pnwmom
(110,324 posts)condemning Trump's 2017 comments.
I think this demonstrates DT's real feelings about Jewish people more than his constant pointing to his Jewish daughter and her family.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/buzzfeed-news/trump-says-sometimes-its-the-reverse-when-asked-about-anti-semitic-threats-and-a/1422820727738941/
Asked for further information about the purpose of the president's comments, Shapiro only said, "I really don't know what he means, or why he said that, adding that Trump said he would be speaking about the issue in his remarks on Tuesday night.
Saying that he hoped to see clarification from the president in those remarks, Shapiro added, "It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
White House spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, said, "That is an absurd and obscene statement."
The Anti-Defamation League also questioned Trumps reported remarks.
"We are astonished by what the President reportedly said. It is incumbent upon the White House to immediately clarify these remarks. In light of the ongoing attacks on the Jewish community, it is also incumbent upon the President to lay out in his speech tonight his plans for what the federal government will do to address this rash of anti-Semitic incidents, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, said in a statement.
GenX67
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