Posted on 03/08/2016 12:30:26 AM PST by Fedora
On February 29, 2016, New York Times reporters Amy Chozick and Patrick Healy provided an insider analysis of the Clinton team's plan to defeat Donald Trump. Citing interviews with "more than two dozen" Clinton insiders, including several who spoke directly to Bill Clinton, the article reported on a series of emergency meetings Clinton supporters convened to respond to Donald Trump's February 20 victory in South Carolina and his February 23 win in Nevada. The article reported that Bill Clinton and others argued against those inclined to underestimate Trump "that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election."
On February 25, the Anti-Defamation League issued a press release in which ADL National Chair Marvin D. Nathan and ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt called upon Trump " to distance himself from white nationalist and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, as well as other white supremacists, and publicly condemn their racism". Nathan and Greenblatt's press release acknowledged that Duke had not endorsed Trump and Trump had already told NBC News in December that he would repudiate an endorsement from Duke, but it insisted that he must do so again "unequivocally". Greenblatt, who recently replaced Abraham Foxman at the ADL's helm, had previously been described in 2014 by Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center as "a Clinton official who bummed around NGOs during the Bush years and then became Obama's director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation". Greenfield's article exposed Greenblatt's association with the Aspen Institute, funded by former Nazi collaborator George Soros, who had previously been condemned as a bigot by the ADL. In September 2015, Greenblatt had painted Ben Carson as a bigot, saying, "Dr. Ben Carson’s statement that a Muslim American should not serve as president is deeply offensive, un-American and contrary to the Constitution." In December 2015, after several months of the ADL sparring with Carson, Greenfeld had issued a press release condemning Trump's call to seal the border against Muslims.
On February 28, the Anti-Defamation League's February 25 press release was cited by Jake Tapper in the CNN State of the Union interview that triggered the recent uproar over Trump and Duke. Tapper, who had previously been ABC's Senior White House Correspondent for several years following Obama's election, has had a long career in Washington, which started as a campaign press secretary for Democratic Congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, mother of Chelsea Clinton's then-future husband Marc Mezvinsky, and also included dating Monica Lewinsky before her scandal with Bill Clinton broke.
On March 7, Greenblatt's ADL predecessor Abraham Foxman renewed the attack on Trump, telling Times of Israel reporter Eric Cortellessa that Trump was deliberately inviting his audience to make a "fascist gesture" by raising their hands to pledge to vote for him. Foxman insisted that Trump is "smart enough to know the images that this invokes", and he brought up the Duke controversy again, adding, " Even though he proclaims he doesn’t know who David Duke was, or the other white supremacists, we know very well that he knows. So he’s playing to an image." In 1993, shortly after Bill Clinton's election, Foxman had begun lobbying the Clinton administration to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. In 2001, it was revealed that after the ADL received $250,000 from Marc Rich, who had been convicted of tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran Hostage Crisis, Foxman concocted the plan that led to Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Rich. More recently, Foxman became an apologist for Obama's Palestinian policies, insisting in 2011 of Obama's call for two-state borders based on 1967 lines that "I don't see this as the president throwing Israel under the bus." In 2012, Foxman called for Congressmen concerned about Islamic lobbying to "stop trafficking in anti-Muslim conspiracy theories". In 2014, Foxman voted to include J Street in the Conference of Major Jewish Organizations after J Street defended John Kerry's characterization of Israel as "apartheid".
This is the type of person calling others Nazis.
The Donald has clearly alienated the all-powerful Jews for the Destruction of Israel PAC.
YOU must see this Fedora...it’s a movie trailer D’Souza showing the democrat/KKK connections still exist today...
YOU WILL BE AMAZED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e6gLht6OQ
I’ve bookmarked. I see the crass huckster cruz bot highball is here...running his mouth. bbl.
Thanks for the link!
All the more reason why Donald shouldn’t have had to “learn more” about the Klan before denouncing it.
Having anti-Semitic backers does not make one an anti-Semite of course, but I wish Trump were a little more supportive of Israel.
I do too. Perhaps he will as time goes by.
I think you summed up the different sides of those issues well.
Bump! Thanks for all your research now and through the years!
Likewise! :-)
Trump is very supportive of Israel.
Trump is very supportive of Israel.
Excellent post!
‘Pod.
BUMP
Yes!!! He’s a Jewwwwww loving Nazi....so horrible!!
Next time you get in an argument with a moron liberal, ask them what the acronym Nazi actually stands for. They don’t even know...
Right wingers are not SOCIALISTS, nor are they the “Workers Party” (organized labor). Nationalist? Absolutely...our nation first, like any intelligent nation should be.
Bump
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