Despite claiming he’s the “least anti-Semitic” person around, President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday the wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. could be so-called false flags perpetrated by Jews themselves to make his administration look bad. Trump, speaking before a group of state attorneys general in Washington said the incidents, which included vandalism at old Jewish…
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NOTE: The President’s comments to state attorneys general preceded his televised speech on Tuesday to a Joint Session of Congress.
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AJC is deeply troubled and puzzled by President
Trump’s recent comments about the wave of bomb threats against Jewish community
centers across the country, and urges the president to clarify his intended
meaning.
In a meeting with state attorneys general, President Trump called the threats
“reprehensible” but added: “Sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people – or to
make others – look bad.”
Earlier today, AJC called on President Trump to maintain the Special Envoy to
Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism position within the State Department.
Later this evening, the president will deliver his first address to a joint
session of Congress, when he is expected to address the issue of rising
anti-Semitism in the U.S.
NOTE: The President’s comments to state attorneys general preceded his televised speech on Tuesday to a Joint Session of Congress.
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Following reports that President Donald Trump suggested the recent spate of bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers and Jewish day schools across the county could be “the reverse, to make people—or to make others—look bad,” Bend the Arc Jewish Action CEO Stosh Cotler issued the following statement:
“This latest bizarre response from President Trump regarding the rise in antisemitism is nonsensical, bordering on the farcical. We struggle to even understand what he intends to mean. It seems he will put together nearly any possible string of words rather than admit there is a real and growing problem of antisemitic violence in this country and that he and his campaign bear some responsibility for it. It is, of course, deeply offensive to imply that Jews would desecrate sacred sites and scare children for political gain. The president should explain his remarks and, if they mean anything, probably apologize for them.”