Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign never recovered after he was caught on video telling a group of millionaires that 47 percent of Americans will always vote for Democrats because they don’t take “personal responsibility” for their lives and are “dependent upon government.”
Donald Trump’s Jewish confidant and advisor says the Jewish community cannot expect the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to immediately condemn and denounce anti-Semitism as it occurs because Jews are not the only religious community in the United States.
Jared Kushner is facing more fire — from two cousins — for defending Donald Trump over an anti-Hillary Clinton tweet featuring a six-pointed star that was seen by some as anti-Semitic.
In light of Donald Trump’s Star of David controversy, a number of Jewish social justice and left-leaning organizations issued a joint letter condemning the use of anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic rhetoric in the presidential race and calling on Americans to denounce all forms of extremism and racism.
Donald Trump kept alive a controversy over a campaign tweet featuring apparently anti-Semitic imagery by saying his staff “shouldn’t have taken it down” and tweeting a picture featuring popular Disney characters to demonstrate that the media are “dishonest.”
House Democrats booed Sen. Bernie Sanders on the floor Wednesday, sending him a strong message for not quitting his presidential campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton.
A policy adviser to Donald Trump told CNN that the Republican party might be due to assert more support for Israeli settlements, and possibly reject all together the idea of a two-state solution, which has long been a pillar of both Democratic and Republican policy in the region.
Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and campaign adviser Jared Kushner defended the presumptive Republican nominee, saying Trump “does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking.”
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