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Fast Forward WATCH: Tapper Calls Trump’s Nazi Statement ‘Immoral, Unpatriotic, Un-American’
CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s monologue at the beginning of his show “The Lead” on Wednesday excoriated President Trump’s recent comments about the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., calling the decision “to act as if these defeated, intellectually destitute, pathetic ideologies and people have any moral standing as they rally to intimidate and vomit forth…
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Fast Forward Steve Bannon Loved Trump’s Charlottesville Remarks
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was supportive of President Trump’s decision at a Tuesday press conference to double down on his earlier claim that neo-Nazis were just as blameworthy as counter-protestors during the unrest in Charlottesville, the political news site Axios reported. “Steve was proud of how [Trump] stood up to the braying mob…
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Fast Forward Zeldin Under Fire For Defending Trump On Charlottesville
New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of only two Jewish Republicans in the House of Representatives, was among the few who stood up for President Trump after his Tuesday comments blaming “both sides” for the Charlottesville events. “It is not right to suggest that President Trump is wrong for acknowledging the fact that criminals on…
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Fast Forward Republican Jews Break With Trump — Demand ‘Moral Clarity’ On White Supremacists
Taking a firm stand against President Trump’s comments on the Charlottesville events, the Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on the president to “provide greater moral clarity in rejecting racism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism.” In a statement issued by the group’s national chairman Norm Coleman and executive director Matt Brooks, the RJC made clear it does not…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Jews Were Forced Out The Back Door By Neo-Nazi Marchers
As white supremacists converged on a Charlottesville park for their violent “Unite the Right” rally, some of them menaced the city’s historic Beth Israel synagogue during Shabbat services, standing across from the building with semi-automatic weapons in their hands. “Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them,…
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Opinion The March For Racial Justice Just Welcomed Jews Back Into The Left
Like many of us, I haven’t felt good about something I’ve read on my Facebook feed in many, many, many months. But today I was deeply moved by the kind of gesture that I thought had disappeared from the public sphere. It came as a response to some upsetting scheduling news. Earlier this week, it…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbinical Group Condemns Trump Over Charlottesville
The largest body of Orthodox rabbis in the United States released a statement on Wednesday condemning President Trump’s continued comparisons between white supremacist marchers and counter-protestors in Charlottesville, Va. “There is no moral comparison,” the president of the Rabbinical Council of America, Rabbi Elazar Muskin, said in a statement. “Failure to unequivocally reject hatred and…
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Fast Forward Both Bush Presidents Condemn Charlottesville Anti-Semitism And Racism
(JTA) — Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush issued a joint statement rejecting “racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms.” “As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded by the fundamental truths recorded by that city’s most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed…
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