Speaking at a campaign event denouncing antisemitism in America, Donald Trump again attacked Jews who vote for Democrats, saying that the party had a “hold, or curse, on you.”
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“With all I have done for Israel, I received only 24 percent of the Jewish vote,” former President Donald J. Trump said on Thursday at an event about fighting antisemitism. He added that “I really haven’t been treated very well, but it’s the story of my life.”
Former President Donald J. Trump, speaking on Thursday at a campaign event centered on denouncing antisemitism in America, said that “if I don’t win this election,” then “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss.”
He made these remarks during an extended airing of grievances against Jewish Americans who have not voted for him, first repeating his denunciation of Jews who vote for Democrats before suggesting that the Democratic Party had a “hold, or curse,” on Jewish Americans and that he should be getting “100 percent” of Jewish votes because of his policies on Israel.
Jews are considered to be one of the most consistently liberal and Democratic demographics in America, and that appeared to frustrate Mr. Trump during his remarks.
“With all I have done for Israel, I received only 24 percent of the Jewish vote,” he said to an audience of prominent Republican Jews — including Miriam Adelson, the megadonor who is a major Trump benefactor — and lawmakers. He added that “I really haven’t been treated very well, but it’s the story of my life.”
During his speech, Mr. Trump made no mention of Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina. Mr. Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, came under fire as CNN reported that on a pornographic forum, he had once called himself a “black NAZI” and defended slavery. Mr. Trump once endorsed him and called him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
In his speech, while lamenting the decline of the pro-Israel lobby over the last 15 years, Mr. Trump said, “if you said something about a Jewish person or something about Israel that was bad, you were out of politics.”
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