Trump, in an interview on WABC radio on Tuesday, claimed Harris regarded uncomfortable whereas assembly final week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“You may see the disdain,” he mentioned, including, “No. 1, she doesn’t like Israel. No. 2, she doesn’t like Jewish individuals. You already know it, I do know it and everyone is aware of it and no one needs to say it.”
Trump has tried to capitalise on divisions within the Democratic Celebration over the Israel-Hamas conflict and sought to color his political opponents as antisemitic whereas overlooking a few of his personal previous feedback and behavior, corresponding to eating at his Florida membership with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist.
With Harris changing President Joe Biden because the probably Democratic presidential nominee, Trump has escalated his assaults on her.
“America is healthier than the concern, hate, and despicable insults of Donald Trump,” mentioned James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris marketing campaign.
“Vice President Harris believes Individuals desire a president who unites our nation as an alternative of divides it, makes use of the ability of the presidency to assist households as an alternative of harm them, and has a imaginative and prescient for our future, as an alternative of taking us backwards.”
Within the interview, the Republican former president repeated feedback he has made earlier than lashing out at Jewish voters who again Democrats, saying anybody who does “ought to have their head examined” and “in case you’re Jewish, in case you vote for a Democrat, you’re a idiot, an absolute idiot. They’ve let Jewish individuals down since Obama at a degree that no one may consider.”
As Trump continued on, he once more mentioned of Harris, “She dislikes Jewish individuals and Israel much more than Biden did.”
The interview host, Sid Rosenberg, then talked about Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff and mentioned, “He’s Jewish like Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Are you kidding me?”
“He’s a crappy Jew,” Rosenberg mentioned, persevering with.
“Yeah,” Trump mentioned once more.
Rosenberg went on, saying of Emhoff, “He’s a horrible Jew.”
They then moved on to criticising Harris on different points.
Trump made the same declare about Harris disliking Jewish individuals on Friday whereas chatting with a Christian group at a Turning Level USA gathering in Florida. He has additionally ignited blowback previously for making comparable remarks about Jewish individuals, like when he mentioned in March that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their faith.”
Emhoff, the primary Jewish particular person to function the partner of a nationally elected US chief, has been some of the seen members of the Biden administration talking about combating antisemitism. He hung mezuzahs on the doorposts of the vice chairman’s residence and led Passover celebrations on the White Home.
Emhoff’s workplace declined to remark Tuesday.
Trump’s marketing campaign has additionally criticised Emhoff’s grownup daughter Ella for posting on her social media account a fundraising hyperlink for the UN Aid and Works Company for Palestinian Refugees. Israel has sought to ban the group and suggests it helps terrorists. European leaders have mentioned that may be a baseless accusation.
Rosenberg, who’s Jewish, is a longtime conservative New York Metropolis radio character who hosts “Sid and Pals within the Morning,” on 77 WABC. Company on his present have included Trump-world figures like Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump Jr.
Rosenberg got here to prominence as a sidekick and sports activities anchor on Don Imus’ long-running morning radio present. He drew backlash in 2001 for making racist feedback calling tennis star Venus Williams an “animal” and saying that she and her sister Serena ought to pose for Nationwide Geographic journal.
He was fired from Imus’ present over these remarks however re-appeared on the present later and was concerned within the incident that bought Imus fired in 2007, during which Imus made a racist and misogynist comment concerning the largely black Rutgers College ladies’s basketball workforce.
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