Trump should shut up about anti-Semitism

Trump has a lot of nerve calling anyone else anti-Semitic. As a Jew, I will never forgive him for his “very fine people” remarks about neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. Trump is anti-Semitic and needs to shut up. His bigotry inspired the attacks on the synagogues in Pittsburgh and California where people were killed.

I have been pretty polite about this and so have other American Jews. But you really have to leave us out of your racist talking points. You are not helping us, you are not helping society, you are not helping Israel. Your racism is your thing and we are not your shield.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 15, 2019

You know who I have sympathy for today? The American Jewish community.
White Nationalists, most of whom are Anti-Semites, are trying to use faux-concern for Israel to justify MORE BIGOTRY, and there's just barely a large enough minority of the Jewish community willing to help.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 16, 2019

#AntiSemitism is on the rise.@realDonaldTrump using Israel to defend his blatant racism only hurts the Jewish community. He doesn't speak for any of us.

We call on ALL leaders across the political spectrum to condemn these racist, xenophobic tweets & using Jews as a shield.
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) July 15, 2019

Justifying a president’s racist tirade by using false charges of anti-Semitism is beneath the Senate.
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) July 15, 2019

Man who drew a cartoon the @ADL calls “blatantly anti-Semitic” says he was invited to the White House for a social media summit https://t.co/Fzckv4rJbD https://t.co/nmH1zyCV7C pic.twitter.com/hvz4BpLNVt
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 6, 2019

Great piece by @chick_in_kiev on the white supremacist trash of the GOP exploiting Jewish fears, weaponizing Jewish trauma, and invoking phantom Jewish props to deflect from their murderous racism and antisemitism.https://t.co/SRZ15hiSXl pic.twitter.com/qn1XMbXBoJ
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) July 17, 2019

Trump won’t apologize for his treatment of the innocent Central Park Five

Trump is a liar and a bigot. This is disgusting. They were exonerated when the real perpetrator was caught.

This is an appeal to Trump’s supporters who are racists.

In 1989, Trump spent $85,000 to buy full page ads calling to execute 5 African-American teenagers who were falsely accused of a gruesome crime. After they were exonerated with DNA evidence, he doubled-down on that outrageous stance in October 2016. And today, he both-sides’d it. https://t.co/WhE4TUrczt
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 18, 2019

DNA evidence led to the actual rapist. https://t.co/mZ43OhjAjL
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 18, 2019

There is no “both sides.” The confessions were forced. A convicted murderer and serial rapist confessed to the crime, and the charges against the five were dropped. #ExoneratedFive https://t.co/pm9e5auooG
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) June 18, 2019

Anti-Semitism is on the rise

I blame Trump for a large part of this. His bigotry has inspired white supremacists. Jew understand what a bigot Trump is.

The number of reported murders, rapes and robberies in New York is lower now than it was a year ago, city officials announced. But amid the good news, there was an outlier: Reported hate crimes are up 64 percent. https://t.co/ec7R1Fc0cn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 5, 2019

The number of hate crimes in New York City jumped by 64 percent this year, officials said Tuesday, fueled by a major spike in attacks on Jews. @Tom_Winter @richschapiro https://t.co/IuZaSMOf0q
— NBC Investigations (@NBCInvestigates) June 4, 2019

Take time to learn about it: https://t.co/ebO3LYVo1S
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 25, 2019

“American Jews aren’t motivated by Israel. They are, however, greatly offended by anti-Semitism, whether it comes from the right or left, and will expect both political parties to drum out anti-Semites.” https://t.co/Qq01I0DA0K
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) May 26, 2019

The $20 bill won’t have Harriet Tubman’s picture during the Trump administration

They don’t want to offend the white supremacists in their base.

Everything you need to know about Trumpism in one story https://t.co/Z5tLHYbruy
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) May 23, 2019

At one point #HarrietTubman had a $40K bounty on her head. In the face of that she noted "I had reasoned this out in my mind there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other." I believe that's worth $20. https://t.co/X0momghGA5
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) May 23, 2019

Tried to tell y’all… https://t.co/Jw6ux6dQON
— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) May 23, 2019

This story made me cry, and not over a $20 bill. https://t.co/4qKBFkATNH
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) May 22, 2019

The president who thinks Robert E. Lee is a hero has decided to prevent the public celebration of an actual hero: https://t.co/MAQwTOrXTA
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) May 22, 2019

There is no link between undocumented immigrants and crime

If Donald Trump cared about facts, he would stop repeating the lie that undocumented immigrants are to blame for crime. But we know he doesn’t, and he won’t. https://t.co/UZuOaATwUC
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) May 14, 2019

THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN VIOLENT CRIME AND UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. NONE. https://t.co/pDSoLC9KwG
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 13, 2019

It’s a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.

https://t.co/Tt1qfPQ3eD via @MarshallProj
— MJ 'La Resistencia' Krey (@mjkrey) May 13, 2019

Another study showing that Trump won because of white nationalism, not economic issues

A new study confirms that Iowa went from Obama to Trump not because of economic anxiety, but rather because white voters responded accordingly to Trump's nativist, anti-immigrant, and racist appeals. https://t.co/Vw3MJSAwAz pic.twitter.com/MLOJnUTDNT
— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) May 5, 2019

Trump won’t give out the teacher of the year award. I doubt it’s a coincidence that the teacher is black.

Donald Trump has chosen not to give out this year's National Teacher of the Year Award, breaking a tradition that dates back to Harry Truman.

I'll give you three guesses why, but you won't need the other two. pic.twitter.com/Ha0uqXwNRG
— Brett Pransky (@BrettPransky) April 28, 2019

This year's National Teacher of the Year is a black man https://t.co/Dap3ZdHCrQ
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) April 28, 2019

Trump administration lie on religious freedom

Tell it to the Muslims – Trump wanted to ban them. He’s an evil lying bigot.

I mean, you know, except for that thing where he banned an entire religion from entering the country. https://t.co/KUvGK3kkMG
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) May 2, 2019

BREAKING: This must mean @realDonaldTrump is going to lift the Muslim ban right?

cc:@VP https://t.co/WKxPojRxOt
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 2, 2019

Trump lies about Charlottesville

Trump lies about the white supremacists and his reaction to Charlottesville. His supporters try to say he didn’t defend white supremacists when he clearly did. Sad!

Trump defends his “very fine people” comments on Charlottesville: “People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.” Fact check: There were many neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 26, 2019

Robert E. Lee owned 200 slaves (which he famously tortured) then led a rebellion to extend slavery which killed 620,000 people.

Saying you're not a racist, you just love Robert E. Lee is like saying you're not an antisemite, you just love Hitler. https://t.co/K3jEHpZFSD
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) April 26, 2019

Robert E. Lee owned slaves and brutalized them.

Lee led an armed revolt against the United States to preserve and expand slavery.

And during that armed revolt, Lee's army captured free blacks in the North and enslaved them. https://t.co/hYRFhcn0tq
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 26, 2019

So let me get this straight: When federal law enforcement investigates a foreign attack on our democracy it's "treason," but a rebel leader who tried to topple the nation in a civil war is a "great general"…
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 26, 2019

Fox News reporter goes off on colleagues, saying their comments about Charlottesville on an internal email thread were like "something you’d read on a White Supremacist chat room.”https://t.co/EqP7LtLJfZ
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) April 26, 2019

NEW: Fox News was set to claim Trump didn't say "both sides" about Charlottesville, until a White House reporter called them out for sound like a "white supremacist chat room." https://t.co/LvBqUjra9q
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 26, 2019

A must read in light of Trump’s comments on Charlottesville this morning. https://t.co/RLWDlkQyWW
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 26, 2019

Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general https://t.co/ciQX9couB4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2019

Today, President Trump said his Charlottesville comments referred to people who supported the “great general” Robert E. Lee. In 2017, @AdamSerwer wrote that “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery”: https://t.co/36Sr9cr6X1
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 26, 2019

No better guide than @AaronBlake on how this revisionist history makes no sense –> https://t.co/HcSrvAEEbF https://t.co/XHSRcmOOTh
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 26, 2019

"The 'fine people' the president defended in 2017 were the same people chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and 'blood and soil.' Is this really a debate #Trump is eager to engage in? Again?"
V-good piece @stevebenen https://t.co/1iRH6JgZYV
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) April 26, 2019

Robert E. Lee was a traitor and a slaver. And as @AdamSerwer reminded us in 2017, “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one.” https://t.co/mHx16L9IGn
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) April 26, 2019

I think about this exchange whenever people praise Lee and denigrate Grant. The Civil War did produce a brave, honorable general who fought for the right cause for the right reasons. That general was not Bobby Lee. https://t.co/kFh5bYvK1t pic.twitter.com/5w5l143z4o
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 26, 2019

Trump only cares about his base

He has no interest in being president of the entire country. His election strategy is focused on turning out his base instead of increasing his appeal. A recent poll showed that the Barr letter changed nothing.

"The old-fashioned idea that a president, once reaching office, should at least pretend to be the leader of all the people these days seems so, well, old-fashioned. Mr. Trump does not bother with the pretense." — @peterbakernyt on Trump's base obsession https://t.co/mfEKbBK1xY
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 17, 2019

Obama regularly told people that he felt obligated to consider the interests and needs of all Americans, even those who didn’t vote for him. https://t.co/8gxKFkyi6I
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 17, 2019

"It’s often observed that Trump is a minority president. But it’s worse: Deliberately functioning as a minority president is itself the long term survival strategy." https://t.co/MVSmURmxnl
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 17, 2019

If you were one of those people who thought that the Barr memo had Changed Everything for Trump, congrats and I want to play poker with you. https://t.co/euzAVKcsmU
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 17, 2019