While running for office, Trump closed out his campaign with a dog-whistle to anti-Semites about a group of Jews who make up the “global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.” But on Wednesday, the president insisted he’s super committed to stamping out anti-Semitism in a tweet that was 100 percent sincere and not at all politically motivated:
Well, do you believe
it is antisemitic to say there is a "Global Power Structure that strips wealth and puts it into pockets of elites/corporations"?
If you say yes, then you claim that Global Wealth/Ruling structure is somewhat Jewish, and these people are pulling the strings therefore criticizing it is antisemitic.
If you say no, then Global Wealth/Ruling structure is not Jewish, so criticizing it not antisemitic.
2. Donald Trump may not have a Jewish problem, but he’s developing an Israel problem
The real estate billionaire said he wasn’t likely to get support from the RJC crowd — because he was too rich to be bought.
“I know why you’re not going to support me. You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,” he said.
He also complimented the room, saying the negotiating skills of anyone in it outclassed Team Obama after the Iran nuclear deal.
“This room negotiates deals,” he said. “Perhaps more than any room I’ve ever spoken to.”
Was he invoking Jewish stereotypes? The National Jewish Democratic Council thinks so: “Donald Trump has been remarkably offensive throughout his candidacy, but to make these sorts of remarks before a Jewish audience is a new level of outrageousness,” it said in a statement.
Not so fast, cautioned the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt: “After having carefully reviewed the speech, we do not believe that it was Donald Trump’s intention to evoke anti-Semitic stereotypes. He has made similar comments about spending his own money on the campaign, and not asking for money from donors, to many other groups.”
The full passage tilts toward Greenblatt’s take — Trump, describing a culture of politicians bought and sold by rich people, said, “I understand, hey five months ago I was with you.”
“In this case he is speaking to a group of Jewish Republicans, a significant portion of whom are business people,” Greenblatt said.
Trump’s bigger problem with this crowd — which laughed appreciatively, at least according to the C-Span audio, at his remarks about their business savvy — is with his Israel posture. Trump the dealmaker’s refusal to reveal his hand does not sit well with a crowd that wants to hear clearcut pro-Israel positions up front.
He was booed for not pledging to recognize a unified Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying that to do so would compromise him as a peace broker.
He also said not to have high expectations of a peace deal: “I don’t know that Israel has the commitment to make it, and I don’t know that the other side has the commitment to make it.”
Like Carson, Trump is tone deaf here to conservative pro-Israel political correctness, which assumes that of course Israel and its prime minister want a deal, it is only the Palestinians who are bloody-minded.
About your second point, the ADL already stated that they don't think Trump was being antisemitic. If you do think it is antisemitic, then somehow saying you don't want money from a group is antisemitic?
You are just incoherent Buck. Which one is it?
