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CNN: American Jews don’t want to be Trump’s political pawns

July 16, 2019

By Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, in CNN.com

The past 24 hours have cemented President Donald Trump’s reputation as America’s “racist in chief.” After tweeting a hateful diatribe about how four Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to where they came from, the President attempted to justify his racism with accusations that these members of Congress are anti-Israel. On Monday morning, he tweeted that these lawmakers “have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.” and cited South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who called them all “anti-America” and “anti-Semitic.”