![]() ![]() The worst people in this country saw your father-in-law’s message and took it as they saw fit. “Look at that image and tell me, honestly, that you just saw a ‘Sheriff’s star,’” writes Schwartz. The explanations, wrote Schwartz in her public letter, were “inane” and “condescending”. (The image in Trump’s original tweet was traced by Mic to a white supremacist message board.) The Trump campaign’s social media director, Dan Scavino, also tried his hand at cleaning up the mess, saying that he had lifted the image from an online source but it wasn’t hate speech and he would never offend anyone. Though the original image was deleted, Trump did not apologize for it, or admit that it was derogatory, instead claiming that the star was a “sheriff’s star, or plain star”. Trump changed his Star of David to a circle. A short time later, the tweet was deleted and reposted with a circle replacing the star. ![]() ![]() The controversy began when Trump tweeted an image of Clinton with a rain of cash behind her and the words “most corrupt candidate ever” inside a six-pointed star. The suggestion that he may be intolerant is not reflective of the Donald Trump I know.” I have personally seen him embrace people of all racial and religious backgrounds. “I know that Donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-semitic thinking. “My father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife,” the statement said. Kushner responded to the letter in a statement late Tuesday. Kushner has played an increasingly high-profile role in Trump’s campaign, participating at a high level in the decision last month to fire the former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, among other decisions. Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, converted to Judaism to marry Kushner in 2009. But I know many of his supporters are, and they believe for whatever reason that Trump is the candidate for them. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think he is. Because maybe Donald Trump isn’t anti-Semitic. But when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his Jewish son-in-law, you’re giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval. “I’m asking you, not as a ‘gotcha’ journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this?” writes Schwartz:īecause, Mr Kushner, you are allowing this. Schwartz challenges Kushner as a fellow Jewish member of the media to face what is happening in the barely concealed underbelly of his father-in-law’s campaign. Schwartz writes that she became a target of antisemitic hate speech after she took issue with a Trump tweet posted Saturday that included an image that Paul Ryan, the House speaker, on Tuesday called “antisemitic”. ![]()
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