A week later, Trump still hasn't denounced his antisemitic guests

[LetMyPeopleVote]

TFG is not going to denounce antisemites or racists because he is an antisemite and racist. It is not reasonable to expect TFG to denounce himself

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/week-later-trump-still-hasnt-denounced-antisemitic-guests-rcna59203?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

After Donald Trump’s ugly reaction to a racist event in Charlottesville in 2017, the then-president lost a fair amount of support from his Jewish allies. As The New York Times reported, Trump’s willingness to dine with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes — two of the nation’s most high-profile antisemites — appears to be pushing Jewish Republicans even further away.

Not all Republican leaders have spoken out, but Jewish Republicans are slowly peeling away from a former president who, for years, insisted he had no ties to the bigoted far right, but refused to repudiate it. Jewish figures and organizations that have stood by Mr. Trump, from [Morton Klein’s Zionist Organization of America] to the pro-Trump commentator Ben Shapiro to Mr. Trump’s own former ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer, David M. Friedman, have all spoken out since the dinner.

“I am a child of survivors. I have become very frightened for my people,” Morton Klein told the Times, referring to his parents’ survival of the Holocaust. “Donald Trump is not an antisemite. He loves Israel. He loves Jews. But he mainstreams, he legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters. And this scares me.”

The comments came on the heels of a tweet from David Friedman, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Israel in the Trump administration, and who wrote on Friday, “To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this. Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable. I urge you to throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong.”

The plea for the former president to “disavow” his bigoted dinner guests was of particular interest — because it’s a step the Republican has so far been reluctant to take.

[Takket]

1. but he did denounce the Constitution.......

so, par for the course, for that piece of crap

[emulatorloo]

3. +++

[SoCalDavidS]

2. What About His Jewish Daughter & Son-In-Law?

I guess her Trust Fund is more important than showing support for the religion she converted into.

[keithbvadu2]

4. And few repubs have criticized him about it.

[Skittles]

5. why would he?

seriously

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Trump hasn't condemned antisemitism because he says anti-Semitic stuff all the time:

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-antisemitism/

Speaking to authoritarianism expert, Ruth Ben-Ghait began her conversation with Hasan by saying that it's the latest example of the "pivot myth," which came from Republicans who claimed Trump would "pivot" to being reasonable and rational in the general election. Then it became Trump would "pivot" after taking office. Then it changed to he would pivot after being impeached. Trump is never going to be normal.

"And among the GOP doing this, this is their very bad faith attempt to pretend that they didn't know that their white nationalist Bannon and Miller and the administration -- and also, that this is very important, just a week after they all took over after the inauguration in 2017, they issued a statement for Holocaust remembrance day that did not include Jews," she recalled. "It left out Jews. Which was a gift to Holocaust deniers, right? And then, when the chief of staff, Reince Priebus, explained this, he refused to, you know, he refused to denounce it, and he said, oh, well everyone's suffering is important. So, he was both sides-ing the Holocaust. Another gift to neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. So, they have a long history of taking positions that are sympathetic to white nationalists and neo-Nazis."....

Historian Eric Alterman noted the long history of Trump and his allies pushing pro-Nazi rhetoric and violent antisemitism.

"Yet, the mainstream media and also American Jewish organizations and pro-Israel organizations consistently are trying, well, those both sides. There's Trump, and there is Ye, and there are these horrible antisemitic advertisements that Republicans run, but Ilham Omar once said something that we find objectionable. Or some kid and some college says something that we don't like. They're addicted to this both-sided ideology. But also, it's true: people just can't believe how awful Donald Trump is. This is one aspect of it. It's a very important aspect, and as a Jew, I take it quite seriously. But there's just -- it's been a consistent refusal to own up to who Donald Trump really is. He's an antisemite, He's a racist, I could go on for 15 minutes."