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Trump’s ambassador to Israel on ADL: ‘They’re morons’

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has come under fire for comments he made during the presidential election about J Street, who he described as “worse than Kapos.”
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December 19, 2016

This story originally appeared on “>interview with Jewish Insider on the eve of the election, Friedman referred to leaders of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as “morons” for condemning Trump’s campaign rhetoric and commercials that were perceived as dog-whistles to his anti-Semitic supporters.

“People talk about dog-whistles and about Trump with dog-whistles,” Friedman said in a wide-ranging interview. “As soon as Jonathan Greenblatt accused Trump of somehow being anti-Semitic, what did we hear next? We heard this clown from Minnesota, [Senator] Al Franken, who should go back to his career as a comedian. (Franken

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