Trump Falsely Claims Four Congresswomen Used the Slur "Evil Jews"

Trump Falsely Claims Four Congresswomen Used the Slur “Evil Jews”

By JEREMY STAHL at Slate

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-falsely-claims-aoc-omar-tlaib-pressley-said-evil-jews.html

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After spending much of the week defending his racist assertion that four Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to the countries “from which they came,” President Donald Trump on Friday falsely stated that they had used the anti-Semitic slur “evil Jews” and have “call[ed] the people of our country and our country ‘garbage.’ ”

None of the congresswomen in question—Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib—have ever been reported to say either of those things.

“[It’s] horrible what they’ve said about our country, these congresswomen,” Trump told reporters outside of the White House. “They can’t call our country and our people ‘garbage.’ They can’t be anti-Semitic. They can’t talk about ‘evil Jews,’ which is what they say. ‘Evil Jews.’ ”

As noted, both of these accusations are completely false. The president seems to be attempting to reference a 2012 tweet from Omar that was surfaced by RNC spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington earlier this week. Prior to arriving in Congress and in the midst of the November 2012 conflict between Israel and Gaza, in which between 57 and 105 Palestinian civilians were killed and four Israeli civilians were killed, Omar tweeted she wanted people to “see the evil doings of Israel.” Harrington seems to have conflated this statement with calling all Jews “evil,” and the president has apparently conflated that with using the anti-Semitic slur “evil Jews.”



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