Trump adviser accused of making anti-Semitic remarks

August 18, 2016 2:18 PM
Trump adviser accused of making anti-Semitic remarks




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Former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2005 in Washington. MANUEL BALCE CENETA Associated Press

By Marisa Taylor and William Douglas

McClatchy Washington Bureau

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WASHINGTON

Allegations of anti-Semitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving.

Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago that he pushed out Jewish employees.


Schmitz, who is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, says the allegations against him are lies. All three people who have cited the remarks, including one who testified under oath about them, have pending employment grievances with the federal government.

Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community, described Schmitz’s remarks in his complaint file.

“His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’ ” wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general’s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy.............................

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