MSNBC’s Jen Psaki requested second gentleman Doug Emhoff if he fears Donald Trump is “placing a goal on the backs of Jewish People” with the previous president’s warning that Jewish voters will be partly to blame if he loses the 2024 election to Emhoff’s spouse, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Emhoff, who’s Jewish, was unequivocal together with his reply.
“He’s,” Emhoff, who made historical past in 2021 when he grew to become the primary Jewish partner of an American president or vp, informed Psaki in a preview clip of an interview that MSNBC aired on Thursday.
“I imply, take him at his phrase,” Emhoff continued about Trump. “He lies about lots of issues however you gotta take him at his phrase on issues like this. So, yeah, this can be a disgusting trope, this so-called twin loyalties. It’s an outrage. And it’s not simply Jewish those that must be outraged.”
Trump, who has a prolonged history of antisemitic comments, final week stated any American “Jewish particular person” who votes for Harris is a “idiot” and “ought to have their head examined.”
The Republican nominee warned, “The Jewish individuals would have loads to do with a loss. It’s solely due to the Democrat maintain, or curse, on you.”
Psaki requested Emhoff if he believed Trump is being “antisemitic when he says issues like that. Do you take a look at him and see the repetition of the sort of phrases and language as antisemitic?”
“In fact it’s,” Emhoff replied.
Emhoff has often campaigned towards antisemitism through his second gentleman position and, earlier his yr, slammed Trump as “a recognized antisemite” for sharing a video on-line with references to a “unified Reich.”
Trump, in the meantime, in July agreed with an interviewer who described Emhoff as “a crappy Jew, he’s a horrible Jew.”
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