Donald Trump Suggests Anti-Jewish Threats Came From ‘The Reverse’ to ‘Make Others Look Bad’

President Donald Trump reportedly suggested in a conversation with the state attorney generals that the recent spate of desecration of Jewish cemeteries and bomb threats of Jewish community centers may be false flag operations intended to make certain people look bad.

Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro was one of the attorney generals to meet with Trump in Washington Tuesday morning. Shapiro has a personal stake in the issue: two of his children attend a Pennsylvania Jewish school evacuated after a Monday bomb threat.

After the meeting Shapiro told reporters that Trump promised to say more about the issue in his congressional address. But Trump also expressed some doubt about who the perpetrators might be, wondering if it came from “the reverse.”

Shapiro then said Trump indicated that the threats at JCCs may have come from “the reverse” or “to make others look bad”

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Shapiro stopped short of saying Trump thinks his supporters are being framed for bomb threats. But he seems to think that’s what he meant.

— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) February 28, 2017

“He used the word ‘reverse’ I would say two or three times in his comments…” Shapiro said. “I really don’t know what he means or why he said that. It didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.”

Trump’s comments come after ally and former advisor Anthony Scaramucci made a similar suggestion on Twitter.

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