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Video Uncovered of Trump Making Anti-Semitic Remarks After He Called for Rep. Ilhan Omar to Resign
Well, well, well. There is always a tape!!
After Donald Trump called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign due to her comments against the pro-Israel group AIPAC, a 2015 clip of the then-candidate Trump telling a Jewish group “I’m a negotiator like you folks” has resurfaced.
Trump told reporters today that the freshman progressive lawmaker should resign or at least resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“I think she should be ashamed of herself,” he added, later saying that Omar “knows what to say” in reference to her tweets about AIPAC lobbying spending which was criticized by prominent Democrats, among others, as an anti-Semitic trope.
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However, Trump’s confident condemnation resulted in reporters resurfacing a clip of Trump pushing anti-Semitic tropes while speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, D.C. four years ago.
“You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,” Trump said at the time. “You want to control your own politicians.”
He also told the group that he is “a negotiator like you folks; we’re negotiators.”
“And by the way, did you ever see a negotiation take so long?” He added, in reference to former President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal.
In addition, in 2016, Trump’s infamous Star of David tweet was widely condemned as anti-Semitic.
“Crooked Hillary – – Makes History!” Trump wrote in a post that included a meme originally shared on a white supremacist site, which showed Hillary Clinton’s face in a Star of David next to piles of cash and the label, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”
Trump called on @IlhanMN to resign for a tweet that played on anti-Semitic tropes about Jews buying influence, but Ilhan Omar apologized. In 2016, Trump tweeted this anti-Semitic white supremacist meme of Hillary‘s face over a pile of $100s & a Star of David. He never apologized. pic.twitter.com/2CphKKnaQw
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) February 12, 2019
And we can never forget about that time he said some Nazi’s were “very fine people.”
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