DONALD 2-FACE
Calls neo-Nazis ‘fine,’ rips Dems on Jews
President Trump — who once claimed there were “fine people” among the white supremacists at the ill-fated Charlottesville march — pointed fingers at House Democrats on Wednesday as they bickered over whether to condemn one of their own for controversial comments about Israel.
“It is shameful that House Democrats won’t take a stronger stand against antiSemitism in their conference,” Trump tweeted after Democratic progressives and moderates engaged in a war of words behind closed doors over whether to rebuke Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for recent remarks that critics have called antiSemitic.
The President added, “Anti-Semitism has fueled atrocities throughout history and it’s inconceivable they will not act to condemn it!”
Omar, one of only two Muslim women in Congress, has faced scrutiny for the past few weeks over comments about Israel, including saying last week that supporters of the traditional U.S. ally are pledging “allegiance to a foreign country.”
But critics blasted Trump’s pushback as halfhearted, citing his own previous waffling on condemning white supremacy and racism.
“Trump repeatedly refused to disavow David Duke. He defended ‘both sides’ when neo-Nazis marched on Charlottesville,” ex-Hillary Clinton adviser Jesse Lehrich tweeted, referencing the President’s refusal to condemn the former Ku Klux Klan leader during the 2016 campaign and controversial comments in the wake of the deadly far-right rally in Charlotteville, Va., in 2017.
The President has long been accused of only condemning racism when it’s politically convenient while using inflammatory language in talking about immigrants, Muslims and other minorities.
Following the Charlottesville violence in 2017, Trump infamously claimed there were “fine people” among the white supremacists and racists who converged on the small college town to protest the removal of a Confederate statute.
Outrage over Trump’s language reached a boiling point at a closed-door meeting between Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon, according to people familiar with the matter.