Post by cjm on Mar 30, 2017 4:32:50 GMT
Donald Trump Vindicated: Antisemitism Surge ‘Fake News’
When President Donald Trump suggested last month that the reported rise in antisemitism might have been due to hoaxes, the media were outraged.
When Trump rejected — angrily — the premise of a question posed by a (sympathetic) Jewish reporter who asked Trump what he was going to do about antisemitism, that was treated as evidence of his guilt. And when he condemned antisemitism, it was not enough for Democrats, who are still alleging that he is to blame.
Last week’s arrest of a Jewish teenager in Israel, with dual citizenship in the U.S., proved that much of the antisemitic outbreak was, in fact, fake news.
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When President Donald Trump suggested last month that the reported rise in antisemitism might have been due to hoaxes, the media were outraged.
When Trump rejected — angrily — the premise of a question posed by a (sympathetic) Jewish reporter who asked Trump what he was going to do about antisemitism, that was treated as evidence of his guilt. And when he condemned antisemitism, it was not enough for Democrats, who are still alleging that he is to blame.
Last week’s arrest of a Jewish teenager in Israel, with dual citizenship in the U.S., proved that much of the antisemitic outbreak was, in fact, fake news.
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