The Biden campaign and allied Democratic groups denounced Trump’s comments.
The Biden campaign and allied Democratic groups swiftly denounced Donald Trump on Monday after the former president told a conservative radio host that Jews who vote Democratic were sacrilegious.
The comments from Trump came during an interview with Sebastian Gorka, his one time campaign aide, who pressed him on criticism prominent Democrats have had for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israel-Hamas war.
“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump told Gorka. “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion … They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”
The comments, some of the most direct that Trump has offered around the domestic political fallout of the Israel-Hamas war, evoked earlier statements the former president has made questioning the “loyalty” of American Jews.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League — a Jewish advocacy group, called Trump’s remarks “defamatory.” The White House derided them as “toxic” and President Joe Biden’s campaign accused Trump of “attacking Jewish Americans at a time of rising antisemitism.”
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Trump: Jews who vote for Democrats ‘hate Israel’ https://t.co/GLoN8QGLM5
— POLITICO (@politico) March 19, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) denounces recent remarks by former President Trump about Jewish Americans who vote Democratic as “reprehensible and dangerous,” and argued they are a clear example of “unadulterated antisemitism.” https://t.co/jikmKtgV8a pic.twitter.com/XMOIpYvcYR
— The Hill (@thehill) March 19, 2024
‘Disgusting, toxic, antisemitic’: Doug Emhoff blasts Trump’s comments on Jews https://t.co/3ZCvk3G7T0
— POLITICO (@politico) March 19, 2024
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