Schumer Rips Trump’s ‘Utterly Disgusting’ Attack On Jewish Democrats: ‘Textbook Example’ of Anti-Semitism

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned former President Donald Trump on Tuesday in a strongly worded speech from the Senate floor after Trump attacked Jewish Americans who vote for the Democrats.

Schumer’s speech was mostly about the Senate’s efforts to keep the government funded, but he began by saying he wanted to address “the reprehensible and dangerous comments made yesterday by former President Trump.”

“The former president’s comments were utterly disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of anti-Semitism facing Jews,” Schumer continued, adding:

Pushing the dangerous anti-Semitism trope of dual loyalty to say you hate Israel or your religion, excuse me, to say you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other is sick. It’s hateful. It is unadulterated anti-Semitism, and it serves to use Israel as a political wedge further damaging the bonds between US and Israel.

We have always tried. I’ve always tried through the years to keep everything we do on Israel bipartisan, and to use it for partisan purposes hurts Israel, hurts America, and displays how low Donald Trump would go. And nobody who breaks bread with anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes and who called white supremacists in Charlottesville “very good people,” or who, as was recently reported, said disgustingly that Hitler did some good things, has any right, any right to lecture Jewish Americans about their personal political beliefs.

I condemn the former president’s irresponsible comments and urge others from both sides, both sides, to do the same.

Trump was on Sebastian Gorka’s America First radio show on Monday and said that Jews who support the Democrats “hate their religion” and must also hate Israel, adding that “they should be ashamed of themselves.”

Trump has made similar comments before, saying in August of 2019, “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.