MSNBC morning anchor Joe Scarborough likened President Trump’s comments about where Jewish people’s loyalties lie to Nazi Germany.
Scarborough’s comments came Wednesday morning, a day after the president accused Jewish people who vote for Democratic candidates of either being uninformed or disloyal.
“I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Morning Joe guest Julia Ioffe first called Trump’s comments about “loyalty” a “trope” while saying the connotation of it has a “long and sordid history.” She went on to discuss previous events in which the president has been accused of being anti-Semitic.
Ioffe said, “When he ran the closing ad of his campaign, which was basically kind of the greatest hits of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, when he re-tweeted the photo-shopped image of Hillary Clinton with the star of David with a pile of money and deflected and said it was an illusion to frozen. When, after the Charlottesville rally, once he was president, where people were chanting Jews will not replace us, he said there were very fine people on both sides. ”
Scarborough then added, “Again, you look at that Hillary Clinton ad that he re-tweeted, the attack of Hillary Clinton talking about Jewish money, trying to buy off the United States government. That lies right at the heart of anti-Semitic tropes. Again, for decades, for generations, for centuries, for centuries, this is exactly how Jews have been attacked not only in the Soviet Union but in Germany, across the world, that they are, ‘insufficiently loyal.’”
