Chuck Schumer Claims Trump ‘May Not Be An Antisemite, But He Certainly Tolerates’ It After GOP Senator Calls Schumer ‘Führer’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed on Friday that President Donald Trump “tolerates” and even “revels” in antisemitism.
Schumer joined MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Friday on The Last Word and threw some blame Trump’s way when discussing a Republican senator referring to him as “Führer Schumer.”
The Democratic leader previously called out Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) reported “vicious, nasty, and anti-Semitic.”
According to a report in The Columbus Dispatch, Moreno called Democrats “monolithic sheep that follow the Führer Schumer’s orders.”
On Friday, Schumer accused Trump of tolerating antisemitism, citing the Moreno report and more, including the claim — which has been repeatedly shot down in fact checks — that Trump referred to white supremacists at an infamous Charlottesville rally in 2017 as “very fine people.”
Schumer said:
Look, Donald Trump is you know, he may not be an antisemite, but he certainly tolerates anti-semitism in so many ways. Calling me a Palestinian, you know, don’t tell my mother. But also talking about in Charlottesville, both sides had good people. When he brings an antisemite like [Nick] Fuentes to sit at his table at Mar-a-Lago, when the great replacement theory, which we all know is a conspiracy theory among the hard right that Jews are trying to replace the white race with immigrants — every other president, Lawrence, every other president, Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, whether it’s Reagan or Bush or Clinton or Obama, when there was bigotry, their job was to push it down. Donald Trump, he either revels in it or just lets it stay right there. That just shows you one of the many, many reasons he doesn’t deserve to be president.
Watch above via MSNBC.
