President Trump asserts his view that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat shows 'total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters that"any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat" are either uninformed or show"great disloyalty."
Trump made the comments after he was asked about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's suggestion that the U.S. might want toin aid after she and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., were barred from entering the country last week. He again attacked the two Democrats — saying Tlaib had said"horrible things" about Israel and that Omar is"a disaster for Jewish people.""I can't even believe that we're having this conversation. Five years ago, the concept of even talking about this — even three years ago — of cutting off aid to Israel because of two people that hate Israel and hate Jewish people. I can't believe we're even having this conversation," Trump fumed.
Tlaib and Omar are the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress, and both have been critical of the Israeli government and its treatment of Palestinians.travel to the country this past weekend but the Israeli government announced last week that they would be barred over their support of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
Omar was accused of engaging in the dual loyalty trope earlier this year over comments she has made about pro-Israel groups,
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