Ioffe: Trump’s ‘Not on the Side of the Jewish Community,’ His Anti-Semitism Inspired Killer
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IOFFE: "The largest according to the adl, largest one-year increase since the organization started tracking this in 1979. And that year happened to be the first year of Donald Trump's presidency. You have talked to the now president about this back in you know, this tale of kind of anti-semitic comments, anti-semitic tropes seem to follow him everywhere, to the point where his Jewish son-in-law had to write an op-ed saying my father-in-law is not an anti-semite. Usually if you have to say that, it means people keep accusing you of being an anti-semite and there might be fire where that anti-semitic smoke is. I think he has emboldened and in heartened a lot of people who hear the dog whistles. They know exactly what they mean. They feel that the president approves. They have said as much, if you look at alt-right commentary after the president's moral equivocation on Charlottesville, if you look at his inability to until really forced, to denounce people like David duke, they understand this and understand he's on their side, not on the side of frankly of the Jewish community."
BLITZER: "This shooter, this killer, he posted a lot of anti-semitic posts on social media, but he also went after Donald Trump. He said add one point, trump is surrounded by -- I'm going to use a derogatory word for Jews that start with K, things that will stay the course, trump is a globalist, not a nationalist. There's no MAGA as long as there's a derogatory K word for Jews infestation. He didn't look like he was a great fan of Donald Trump."
IOFFE: "I think this rhetoric is out there, in the air. All the attacks on George Soros, all the talk about globalists. That's so barely veiled, the veil is see through. These are anti-semitic tropes the president has been trafficking in, and it's not a coincidence that these people pick up on this and think if you're talking about this, let's do something about this. They get so riled up that even what he says is not enough."
