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Right On Cue, Here Comes The Jew-Hate

Trump is openly blaming 'The Jews' for his impending loss in November.

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Sep 24, 2024
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Racist Trump supporters in Charlottesville, 2017. Image via ADL

by Justin Rosario

When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, and I’ve told this story more than once writing for The Banter, I explained to my very not Jewish wife why I was never going to speak to her Trump-voting Mother and stepfather again. The reason for this was that despite Trump campaigning on hating Muslims and Latino immigrants, that wouldn’t always be the case. These were my exact words, “They always come for the Jews.”

And so they have. 

Last week, Trump went from oblique threats against Jews and sucking up to neo-Nazis to just openly blaming The Jews for his impending loss in November which he then followed up with a threat. The New Republic has the details:

During an appearance Thursday at the Israeli American Council’s national conference, the theme of which is “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America,” Trump said that Jewish voters would be to blame if he didn’t win the presidential election.

“If I don’t win this electi…

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