ANTI-SEMITISM/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jewish Democratic lawmakers are livid over President Donald Trump’s remarks this week accusing Jewish Americans of ‘great disloyalty’ if they vote for Democrats, saying the president is stoking anti-Semitism. The lawmakers’ outrage comes as Trump reiterated on Wednesday [8-21-19] his disloyalty comment while broadening it out to all voters, telling reporters: ‘If you want to vote Democrat, you are being very disloyal to Jewish people and Israel.’ He also continued his attacks on Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, whom he accused of hating Israel over their support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel…Earlier on Wednesday, Trump quoted conservative commentator and conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root as saying the Jewish people in Israel love Trump ‘like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he’s the second coming of God.’ Trump further quoted Root: ‘American Jews don’t know him or like him.”
–Marianne Levine, “Jewish Dems rage over Trump’s ‘disloyalty’ comments,” Politico, August 21, 2019 5:28 pm