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Fast Forward Gary Cohn Criticizes Trump On Charlottesville — But Won’t Resign
Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser who stood next to the president when he delivered his controversial remarks on the Charlottesville, Virginia, events, is speaking out for the first time. In a Financial Times interview Thursday, Cohn made his displeasure with Trump’s response public. “Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated…
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News Could Grant’s Tomb Be The Next Monument To Go — Over Anti-Semitism?
Statues of Confederate generals are being targeted for removal across the country as “hate symbols” in the wake of the bloody white supremacist riots that rocked Charlottesville, Virginia. But in New York, a monument to an iconic Union Army leader and U.S. president is the latest lightning rod for controversy. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s alleged…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Lawmaker’s Aide Cites Bizarre Conspiracy Theory About Charlottesville Murder
A top aide to a New York State Senator cited a bizarre “false flag” conspiracy theory claiming that the man whose car-ramming attack killed protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia was a “left wing operative” trying to start a civil war, the news site Kings County Politics reported. Sen. Simcha Felder’s director of operations in…
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Opinion We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis
What I’m about to suggest in this column is something I’m not sure I have the moral fortitude to actually carry out in my own adult life. But before I share this perhaps painfully naive idea, I’d like to tell you a story from my childhood. Riding the bus one afternoon, a girl in another…
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News Abe Foxman Fears ‘Major Calamity’ Could Send Unstable Trump Over The Edge
To gauge the deepest fears of Abraham Foxman, ask him if he worries about how President Trump might react to a major terror attack on American soil. Turning dark, the legendarily genial retired leader of the Anti-Defamation League said such a “calamity” might spur Trump to seek to vastly expand his executive powers in an…
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Fast Forward Trump Reaction To Charlottesville ‘Wasn’t Fine,’ U.S. Ambassador To Israel Says
WASHINGTON (JTA) — David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, said Trump’s reaction to the deadly violence at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va. “wasn’t fine,” but he also faulted the media for being unfair to the president. Trump is doing a “great job,” Friedman told Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Peter Beinart Trolled For Sharing Daughter’s Concern About Holocaust After Charlottesville
Forward columnist Peter Beinart was subjected to online vitriol after he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night about his child’s response to the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va. “Yesterday my 9 year old saw some footage from Charlottesville. Then she asked me if there would be a second Holocaust,” he tweeted. The responses he…
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Fast Forward ADL: Online Donations Up 1000% After Charlottesville
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League received 10 times as much money as usual from online donations in response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group, which combats anti-Semitism and bigotry, reported a 1000 percent increase in online donations during the week beginning Aug. 13, one day after the Charlottesville rally….
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