Trump Admin. Reportedly Distances Itself From ADL, Says Jonathan Greenblatt Should Back Off ‘If He Knows What’s Good for Him’
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President Donald Trump’s administration reportedly sought to distance itself from Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Wednesday after he suggested that the Trump administration had been working to implement strategies to combat anti-Semitism devised by former President Joe Biden.
After Greenblatt said in an interview that the ADL was “working” with the Trump administration and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to combat anti-Semitism, informal Trump adviser Laura Loomer urged the White House to “stop associating” with Greenblatt, citing “his years of mass censorship and political flip flopping.”
Days later, on Wednesday, Loomer reported she had been told by a senior Trump administration official that Greenblatt’s comments about working with the administration were “false.”
“A senior Trump admin official has told me that @ADL CEO @JGreenblattADL’s comments about how he is ‘working with the Trump administration to combat anti-Semitism’ are completely false and that he doesn’t have a working relationship with the admin,” wrote Loomer in a social media post. “He hasn’t had a meeting with President Trump, and I can confirm his [sic] hasn’t met with Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy Yehuda Kaploun or @SecRubio.”
Loomer claimed that while Greenblatt had “asked” the education secretary for a meeting, “and she was gracious enough” to accept, “they don’t have a working relationship and nobody from the Trump admin is working with Greenblatt or the ADL in any capacity.”
Loomer also said that the Trump administration took issue “with Greenblatt saying that Trump’s admin is following the same anti-Semitism guidelines as the Biden admin.”
The official reportedly told Loomer, “In no way whatsoever are the policies similar or even comparable. Biden enabled Jew hatred, Trump is cracking down on Jew hatred. Greenblatt should refrain from speaking for the admin if he knows what’s good for him.”
During his interview this week, Greenblatt claimed that the Trump administration had been working on “implementing aspects of the plan” devised by the Biden administration to combat anti-Semitism.
“I have worked with the prior education secretary and I’ve worked with this education secretary, and I credit the Biden administration for their national strategy to counter anti-Semitism, a really important document,” said Greenblatt. “No one had done what the Biden administration had done before in elevating anti-Semitism to a federal priority, and ADL in full disclosure worked with them on that, and they get a lot of credit for adopting the plan.”
He continued, “And then I give credit to the Trump administration for actually implementing aspects of the plan and taking a strong view, again, in the face of real, not imagined, real acts of hate.”
