Trump criticizes Jewish Americans in new interview

By Gabby Orr | CNN

Former President Donald Trump, successful a recently released interview, claimed that Jewish Americans “either don’t similar Israel oregon don’t attraction astir Israel,” portion besides suggesting that evangelical Christians “love Israel much than the Jews successful this country.”

Trump’s comments are the latest successful a bid of arguable remarks helium has been known to marque astir Jewish Americans. During his archetypal run for president, Trump delivered a code to the Republican Jewish Coalition that was rife with anti-Semitic stereotypes. More recently, helium told blimpish vigor big Ari Hoffman that “Israel virtually owned Congress…10 years ago, 15 years ago… and contiguous it’s astir the opposite.”

Speaking to Israeli writer Barak Ravid, during a sit-down interrogation earlier this year, parts of which aired Friday connected the podcast “Unholy: Two Jews connected the News,” the erstwhile President said, “It’s a precise unsafe happening that’s happening,” arsenic helium claimed that Jewish Americans person turned their backmost connected Israel.

“There’s radical successful this state that are Jewish and nary longer emotion Israel,” Trump said. “I’ll archer you, the evangelical Christians emotion Israel much than the Jews successful this country.”

Trump outperformed some of his Democratic rivals — Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden — with White evangelical voters successful 2016 and 2020 and is presently considering a 3rd tally for president successful 2024. Speaking to Ravid, Trump blamed Biden and erstwhile President Barack Obama for what helium perceives arsenic Israel’s waning power implicit US elected officials.

“It utilized to beryllium that Israel had implicit powerfulness implicit Congress, and contiguous I deliberation it’s the nonstop opposite. And I deliberation Obama and Biden did that,” Trump charged. “And yet successful the election, they inactive get a batch of votes from the Jewish people. Which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a agelong time, the Jewish radical successful the United States either don’t similar Israel oregon don’t attraction astir Israel.”

In the aforesaid interview, Trump suggested that The New York Times “hates Israel” adjacent though “they’re Jewish radical that tally The New York Times.” (For decades, the insubstantial has been owned by the Sulzberger family, though its employees, including its apical editors, travel from each backgrounds).

A spokesperson for Trump could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

Ravid was among respective journalists who interviewed the erstwhile President astatine his Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster clubs soon aft helium near bureau successful January. During his interviews with Ravid, the erstwhile President besides said helium hasn’t spoken with erstwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since helium congratulated Biden connected his 2020 triumph past November.

“F**k him,” Trump said of Netanyahu, according to a study by Axios.

“The archetypal idiosyncratic that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the antheral that I did much for than immoderate different idiosyncratic I dealt with … Bibi could person stayed quiet. He has made a unspeakable mistake,” Trump reportedly said.