Sam Lowry said:
fubar said:
bearassnekkid said:
fubar said:
"I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat -- it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America
Defend the comment, or defend against your disingenuous assertion of what it means?
I made no assertion. I simply posted the quote and asked a question.
Yes:
https://jewishinsider.com/2019/08/jewish-groups-react-to-trumps-latest-comments-on-american-jewish-voters/
https://twitter.com/RJC
From the JI link.
Jewish groups:
The American Jewish Committee
condemned the president's comments. AJC CEO David Harris said the president's comments are "shockingly divisive and unbecoming of the occupant of the highest elected office. American Jews like all Americans have a range of political views and policy priorities. His assessment of their knowledge or 'loyalty,' based on their party preference, is inappropriate, unwelcome, and downright dangerous."
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
tweeted, "It's unclear who POTUS is claiming Jews would be 'disloyal' to, but charges of disloyalty have long been used to attack Jews. As we've said before, it's possible to engage in the democratic process without these claims. It's long overdue to stop using Jews as a political football."
Logan Bayroff, J Street's director of communications, said in a statement: "It is no surprise that the president's racist, disingenuous attacks on progressive women of color in Congress have now transitioned into smears against Jews."
Israel Policy Forum
said on Twitter that Trump's comments "are appalling but unsurprising given his record of inappropriate remarks as well as his efforts to leverage Israel as a wedge issue in U.S. politics."
The Zioness Movement released a statement saying that the president "casually employed several of the most explicitly antisemitic conspiracy theories in the same breath. This is the kind of bigotry that has sparked humanity's worst impulses and greatest catastrophes."
The Bend the Arc Jewish activist group wrote that Trump's statement is "textbook antisemitism and should be called out as such, without hesitation."
Earlier on Tuesday, in an
interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said that Trump reserves the right to escalate his attacks against the Democratic congresswomen because he "is standing up for the American people, he's standing up for our ally in Israel, but these two women are clearly against the existence even of Israel."
Gidley went on to slam the "disingenuous" media for refusing "to call out antisemitism for what it is The Democrats are encouraging this behavior and the media are allowing it to happen."
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat