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Trump picks Matt Gaetz, who called ADL ‘racist’ and invited Holocaust denier to SOTU, for attorney general
Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | November 13, 2024 | Jacob Gurvis

Posted on 11/16/2024 1:39:25 PM PST by Angelino97

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and associated with a Holocaust denier.

As attorney general, Gaetz would head the government department responsible for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes, including antisemitism... If he is confirmed to the role by the Senate, he would succeed Merrick Garland, a former federal judge who is Jewish...

In 2018, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Anti-Defamation League both criticized Gaetz, then in his first term, for inviting a Holocaust denier as his guest at the State of the Union address. The guest, Charles Johnson, had publicly doubted that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and suggested falsely that only 250,000 had died of illness.

“This organization is deeply troubled by the comments from Charles C. Johnson, and it is incredibly important for the congressman to acknowledge he is a Holocaust denier and has extensive writings that attest to that and that it was wrong to bring him to the State of the Union,” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks told BuzzFeed at the time.

The ADL also called on Gaetz to repudiate Johnson’s extremist views, writing in a letter to the representative that inviting Johnson was “an insult to the memories of those killed in the Holocaust, to their families, and to the Jewish community.”

Gaetz denied that Johnson was a Holocaust denier. He told BuzzFeed that Johnson “is not a Holocaust denier and he’s not an anti-Semite. He’s a provoker, I should’ve vetted him better before inviting him to the State of the Union, I regret that I didn’t. That’s my fault. I take responsibility for it. But he is not a Holocaust denier.”

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1 posted on 11/16/2024 1:39:25 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
Meanwhile.....

Muslim Voters Who Helped Elect Trump Upset With ‘Pro-Israel’ and ‘Pro-War’ Cabinet Picks

2 posted on 11/16/2024 1:43:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Angelino97

Would they have been happier if Harris/Walz would have won?


3 posted on 11/16/2024 1:45:34 PM PST by IWONDR
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To: Angelino97

I don’t know if the ADL is racist, but it sure is antisemitic for a purported Jewish group.


4 posted on 11/16/2024 1:45:50 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Texas Eagle

Apparently Muslim voters took well to Richard Grenell. And Trump’s Lebanese son in law’s father. Same here.


5 posted on 11/16/2024 1:48:21 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Angelino97

I think I remember hearing about Louis Farrakhan acting as king maker and ideological supporter of the Democrat Party during recent election cycles. Did he maintain that role during the Biden/Kamala years?

This is more than just “what about-ism” as there can be no doubt as to whether Farrakhan had similar anti Semitic sentiments. The Democrats did this will full knowledge of who and what Farrakhan was about, it was not a mistake.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 1:48:46 PM PST by Thistledew (Trump has trumped the dumped. And dumped they are... completely out of office!)
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To: IWONDR
Would they have been happier if Harris/Walz would have won?

No and I suspect it wasn’t only Gaza but the hyper-woke stuff too. Most Muslims are socially conservative in practice.

7 posted on 11/16/2024 1:49:48 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Angelino97

The more hate the left spews, the more I think Pres. Elect Trump is making good choices.


8 posted on 11/16/2024 1:49:49 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Angelino97
You just can't please some chosen people.

JK!!! LOL!!!

9 posted on 11/16/2024 1:50:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Fedora

Charles C. Johnson is connected to a guy named Tim Miller...
They are both connected to reporter Beth Reinhard, who was one of the lead reporters on the effort by the Rinos and NeverTrumpers to smear and destroy Judge Roy Moore of Alabama.

Roy Moore’s campaign was also sabotaged by a false flag social media effort aimed at black sites which was made to look like Russians were backing Moore- but the “Russians” were not Russians and the trolling scheme was actually run by a bunch of profs and educators out of Stanford University.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Jeb Bush Staffer Planted Anti-Roy Moore Coverage in Washington Post
Big League Politics ^ | 12/08/2017 | Patrick Howley
Posted on 12/8/2017, 2:24:38 PM by gubamyster

Former Jeb Bush campaign staffer Tim Miller was responsible for giving anti-Roy Moore information to the Washington Post, according to text messages obtained by Big League Politics.

Tim Miller is the co-founder of America Rising super PAC, which was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece by the Republican National Committee and the Senate Leadership Fund during the 2016 campaign cycle. Miller now works for Definers, which is a major vendor to America Rising. He served on the Bush campaign in a communications role and has since established himself as an anti-Trump Republican lauded by the anti-Trump left for his opposition to the Republican president.

Big League Politics has obtained screenshots of a text conversation between Tim Miller and conservative writer Charles C. Johnson. In the conversation, Miller refers to “Beth.” He is referring to Beth Reinhard, a Washington Post reporter who has pushed the allegations against Moore.

The allegations that Moore pursued young teenage girls have been roundly criticized for alleged factual inaccuracy, and for the Democratic Party connections of at least one accuser.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is seen by insiders as fighting against Moore in favor of his Democrat opponent Doug Jones, who is also linked to Bush family strategist Karl Rove, according to insiders.

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10 posted on 11/16/2024 1:55:29 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Angelino97
The ADL are nothin but of leftist hustlers.

Those scumbags should move their office to Gaza.

11 posted on 11/16/2024 2:04:17 PM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: NorthMountain
It didn’t take long for the never-Trumpers to (predictably) get in line to start trashing and smearing his nominees.

Fortunately, it’s likely few if any care much about what they think.

12 posted on 11/16/2024 2:08:31 PM PST by daler
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To: Angelino97

Gatetz is the only pick I can’t get behind. I know he’s very bright and quick thinking, but he’s bringing with him piles of baggage * real or perceived) that are distracting from Trump’s fantastic win.

I know he’s very popular at FR, but there are plenty of people loyal to Trump that can’t stand Gaetz. There will be plenty of worthwhile battles ahead- this feels like an unnecessary one.


13 posted on 11/16/2024 2:10:45 PM PST by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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You seem to be forgetting Trump had PILES of baggage with him also, THOSE are the people you want FIGHTERS who fight their damn way out of the baggage and learn from the experience to become PIT BULLS and take no prisoners!!


14 posted on 11/16/2024 2:13:39 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: SE Mom
he’s bringing with him piles of baggage * real or perceived

Every Trump nominee will be saddled with baggage, real or perceived.

Buchanan was smeared as "far right" in 1992. After "moderate" Bush safely defeated him, Bush was smeared as "far right" for the general election.

15 posted on 11/16/2024 2:14:33 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Anybody is better than the far-left’s Merry Garland.


16 posted on 11/16/2024 2:16:01 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's great to hear the illegal aliens saying that Trump isn't their president. Easier to Deport!)
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To: Angelino97

The gnawing noise you hear are the RAT turd rollers gnawing away on Matt Gaetz. Cannibalistic bass turds.


17 posted on 11/16/2024 2:18:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's great to hear the illegal aliens saying that Trump isn't their president. Easier to Deport!)
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To: Angelino97
The ADL does not speak for me. They're so quick at condemning neo nazis and White supremacists, any schmuck can do that. Since 10/7/23 any criticisms from the ADL directed at the Jew hating Palestinian sympathizers and other anti Semitic, anti Zionist useful idiots is rather tepid and disingenuous. Long before this I realized what ADL really stands for
Aways
Defending
Leftists
18 posted on 11/16/2024 2:19:12 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Laiken Riley is my daughter!)
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To: SE Mom

It wouldn’t matter who Trump picked, the Democrats would be doing the exact same thing to any other appointment. Call your senator and tell him to vote for Gaetz or get our.


19 posted on 11/16/2024 2:21:31 PM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: piasa

Speaking of the ADL:

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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3406497/posts

The Anti-Israeli Clintonistas behind the Trump KKK/Nazi Smear Campaign
Original research | 3/8/2016 | 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.


20 posted on 11/16/2024 2:30:02 PM PST by Fedora
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