Donald Trump’s eldest son railed Thursday against claims that his father is anti-Semitic after a tweet last weekend featured a six-pointed star in the shape of a Star of David.
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Donald Trump, Jr. told the “John Fredericks Show” Thursday that claims of that kind are “sick” and “so disgusting,” noting that most of his father’s executives are Jewish. He also said you can’t blame him for the tweet, which he dubbed a “mistake from an IT guy.” Dan Scavino, who serves as the campaign’s social media director, took responsibility for the tweet soon after, and Trump defended him during a rally Wednesday in Cincinnati.
“I grew up in New York City. Three of my five best men are Jewish. My father, half his executives, probably more than half his executives are Jewish,” Trump Jr. told the host. “The notion that these people are trying to say, that a mistake from an IT guy means he’s an anti-Semite. I’ve never seen anything so disgusting in your life. And the real problem with all of it is … when people throw out the racism card, or the anti-Semite card, hey, racism, anti-Semitism, all of these things, are real issues in this country. They are real issues in this country and frankly across the world.”
“When the left throws it out there every time they can’t win an argument, it’s their ace in the hole. ‘Well, I think this is blue you think it’s green, you must be a racist. You’re doing a major disservice to the people who are actually afflicted by that plight,” the younger Trump said. “It’s a shame that it’s just thrown around there haphazardly, so stupidly.”
Trump Jr. also called the idea “laughable,” noting that his father would likely never be able to do business in New York if he were anti-Semitic.
“It’s about as stupid as saying, ‘I’m racist against white people.’ It doesn’t get any dumber. Besides the obvious, besides the awards, besides being head of the Israeli day parade, all of these things, all of his Jewish friends, all of his Jewish employees, executives, high-level people. I mean, he probably knows more Jewish people than he does Christians,” the younger Trump said. “It’s so laughable, if it wasn’t so sick, it wasn’t so twisted and, if it wasn’t so much of the Democratic playbook, you’d think you were being Punk’d.”
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