Ivanka And Jared Had To Persuade President To Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism After Shooting [View all]
Source: Newsweek
President Donald Trump’s statement denouncing anti-Semitism after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday reportedly came at the behest of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who are Jewish.
“It took the importuning of his Jewish daughter and son-in-law to craft a powerful statement of outrage at anti-Semitism after Saturday’s slaughter at a Pittsburgh synagogue,” The New York Times reported on Sunday.
The president late afternoon Saturday, hours after the morning shooting that killed 11 worshippers, tweeted: “All of America is in mourning over the mass murder of Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We pray for those who perished and their loved ones, and our hearts go out to the brave police officers who sustained serious injuries...”
In a following tweet, the president wrote, “This evil Anti-Semitic attack is an assault on humanity. It will take all of us working together to extract the poison of Anti-Semitism from our world. We must unite to conquer hate.”
By late night Saturday, however, the president began weighing in on the World Series game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, tweeting it was “amazing” how a manager took out the Dodgers’ dominating pitcher and replaced him with “nervous reliever(s).” He also held a campaign rally where he continued his familiar attacks on his opponents, some of whom had been targeted by mail bombs in the previous days.
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