Thanks to both campaigns, I feel like I worked right through the break. And I actually did, responding throughout the weekend to Donald Trump's anti-Semitic tweet, and his doubling down on doing nothing wrong.
My wife said he's like the kid caught stealing cookies, with his hand still in the cookie jar, denying he did it, getting more and more adamant about it, and hoping that the more insistent he is, the more you'll believe him.
I don't.
Nubbs claims the red six-pointed star next to Hillary Clinton's face over a background of hundred dollar bills, is not anti-Semitic code for 'Jewish-controlled' Wall Street.
On the star is the accusation that Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever. It's no leap to interpret this Tweet to mean that $15 million dollars in campaign contributions from the big bad Jews of Wall Street corrupted her.
And the graphic originated on a white supremacist website. It was intended to be anti-Semitic!
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| These people scare the bejeezus out of me. But Donald Trump actually thinks they're a valid source for his campaign material. |
According to my high school classmate Ellen (Kahn) Rampell's very gifted daughter Catherine of The Washington Post, who appeared on MSNBC yesterday, this is the fifth time Trump has posted a white supremacist-leaning tweet. It's a pattern.
I'm sure you've seen the offensive tweet it by now. If not, click right here.
It took two hours for Trump to take his tweet down and replace the star with a circle. Keep in mind, this was not a re-tweet. It originated from Trump's personal Twitter account.
The Donald claims the star could have been a Sheriff's badge or a plain star. When I heard him say that, I literally thought I would vomit.
He blamed the media and Hillary for all the brouhaha.
But this graphic is quintessential Nazi propaganda straight out of late 1930's Germany, and he's too smart to know otherwise.
What the heck, Donald? You and I went to the same Ivy League school. You couldn't even have gotten into the place unless you'd taken Honors History in high school. You certainly knew better.
In summary, this anti-Semitic tweet was posted intentionally by Donald Trump or a surrogate. If not intentional, it was a lapse in management by 'the world's greatest manager'...for the fifth time.
Trump prides himself on his lean campaign staff, so he really can't blame this on his minions. They don't exist. The man refuses to apologize or even back down. This is pathological.
I'm amazed any self-respecting Republican will even talk to this horrible person. That any would still consider being on his ticket is beyond comprehension. It's also political suicide.
Trump is an unapologetic anti-Semite of the worst kind--one who claims he isn't.
His so-called Jewish familial connections simply serve to enable him...he sees them as tacit permission to unleash his vitriol.
I've witnessed this kind of behavior before in a former in-law of mine from a previous 'interfaith' marriage, and it was hurtful, harmful and wrong.
Believe it, America. Antisemitism represents a visceral and genuine existential threat to millions of your fellow citizens. They don't take it lightly, and there is no place for it in American politics.
Trump needs to apologize, clearly disavow Antisemitism and white supremacy, or drop out now.
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