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Fast Forward Trump quoted as saying Jews are ‘only in it for themselves’
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said Jews “stick together” and are “only in it for themselves” following conversations with Jewish lawmakers, The Washington Post quoted senior White House officials as saying. The quotes are in a lengthy article quoting anonymous current and former officials describing how Trump treated race in private conversations. The Post did…
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Fast Forward Trump praises “racehorse theory” at Minnesota rally
At a campaign rally in Minnesota on Saturday, President Donald Trump waxed poetic about the Minnesotan gene pool in language that, according to Holocaust experts, came eerily close to endorsing eugenics. “You have good genes, you know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it is about genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe?”…
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Fast Forward The U.S. — not Israel — is my country, American Jews tweet at Trump
American Jews took to Twitter to respond after President Trump said Jews Jews should vote for him because of his position on Israel, saying “we love your country” during a White House call for Rosh Hashanah. My country is America. https://t.co/Fhx6SPsnnJ — Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 16, 2020 MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/VHSWpNSTmN — Antisemitism Cow (@AntisemitismCow) September…
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Fast Forward On Rosh Hashanah call, Trump tells Jews ‘we love your country’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump spent much of his 20-minute call with American Jewish leaders making the case for more American Jews to vote for him. He closed by repeating a line that has raised their eyebrows before. “We really appreciate you,” Trump said as he signed off the call, an annual pre-Rosh Hashanah…
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Fast Forward Groups call Trump ad featuring Bernie Sanders as puppet master anti-Semitic
(JTA) — Two left-wing Jewish groups are accusing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign of anti-Semitism over an ad showing Bernie Sanders holding Joe Biden as a puppet. The ad, according to screenshots posted on Twitter, has Biden dangling like a marionette from strings that are wrapped around Sanders’ fingers with text reading “Joe Biden: The radical…
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Culture Would Tevye vote for Trump or Biden? 25 fictional Jews weigh in.
The 2020 voter faces the ballot box during a season of unprecedented challenges — not least of which is the act of voting itself. In addition to the usual gerrymandering and voter suppression, a nationwide pandemic is poised to overwhelm an underfunded postal service. As if that weren’t enough, the president, repeating long-debunked claims of…
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Fast Forward Trump’s cabinet hated Jared Kushner: new Bob Woodward book
A new book by veteran reporter Bob Woodward says President Trump’s cabinet members saw the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as unworthy of their trust and weak in dealing with world leaders, according to the Washington Post. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Kushner’s warm interactions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel-UAE agreement
(JTA) — President Donald Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a lawmaker in the Norway parliament who heads his country’s delegation to NATO, nominated Trump, Fox News first reported. Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the conservative-leaning populist Progress Party, told…
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