Ivanka And Jared Had To Persuade President To Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism After Shooting

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: Newsweek

President Donald Trump’s statement denouncing anti-Semitism after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday reportedly came at the behest of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who are Jewish.

“It took the importuning of his Jewish daughter and son-in-law to craft a powerful statement of outrage at anti-Semitism after Saturday’s slaughter at a Pittsburgh synagogue,” The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The president late afternoon Saturday, hours after the morning shooting that killed 11 worshippers, tweeted: “All of America is in mourning over the mass murder of Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We pray for those who perished and their loved ones, and our hearts go out to the brave police officers who sustained serious injuries...”

In a following tweet, the president wrote, “This evil Anti-Semitic attack is an assault on humanity. It will take all of us working together to extract the poison of Anti-Semitism from our world. We must unite to conquer hate.”

By late night Saturday, however, the president began weighing in on the World Series game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, tweeting it was “amazing” how a manager took out the Dodgers’ dominating pitcher and replaced him with “nervous reliever(s).” He also held a campaign rally where he continued his familiar attacks on his opponents, some of whom had been targeted by mail bombs in the previous days.

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[sandensea]

1. "And don't call the shooter a 'very fine person'!"

[brush]

32. WTH are they still working for this anti-Semitic, racist, "Nationalist"?

[sandensea]

33. ...

[The Liberal Lion]

2. The pursation wasn't very effective

[mercuryblues]

3. he also pondered

about cancelling his KKK rally that night. Now, before you go thinking it was out of respect for those killed, it wasn't. His hair got messed up because he stopped and answered a reporter's questions about the shootings.

[riversedge]

15. pondering if Trump perhaps thought the media -or Obama or Clinton caused the wind and rain

to ruin his 'hair'

[dalton99a]

4. Another PR piece for Javanka by Maggie Haberman

[FakeNoose]

5. We ALL knew Cheeto didn't write it

Probably a PR person who works for Ivanka wrote it.

[montanacowboy]

6. Bullshit

I am sick to death of these two

[still_one]

7. Who told the NY Times this? "The couple reportedly urged the president to denounce anti-Semitism"

There is no mystery that trump is a racist, sexist, bigot, but the way this story is written, it sounds right out of the pages of the National Enquirer. Vague sources, "reportedly". relating this.

[bitterross]

8. So, Trump handed Ivanka his phone so she could tweet.

That's what I'm getting out of this. Especially if you read the tweets. They don't sound like Shitler at all.

[7962]

13. Good point. nt

[Solly Mack]

17. Most likely.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Sadly, I agree.

The tenor of the tweet doesn't match his parlance.

[kimbutgar]

9. The orange maggot would have not said anything if his daughter was not married to a Jewish man

The dude blamed Democrats for something one of supporters did sending bombs. Did you expect anything less?

[slumcamper]

10. The man is seriously, mentally ill.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Well, it must be just horrible when one of your kids marries like, you know,

the enemy!!

Poor Donnie Trump.

[Scarsdale]

12. Especially, when she

is more "sexually attractive" than the wife. He said that on Howard Stern show. He said "Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your daughter than your wife?" There is a lot more touching between them than there is between tRump and his nekkid model vife.

[Power 2 the People]

14. How can Sheldon Adelson,Steve Wynn and other prominent Jewish businessmen

financially support and encourage Trump and the direction of the Republican party? I'm just dumbfounded that men like these don't see what's happening in this country and where it is leading.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. The same can be asked of ANY minority.

But, it is important to remember, we are not monolith groups. It is somewhat patronizing to expect Jews (or minorities) to perform and act the way the majority (whomever they may be) expects.

[Power 2 the People]

22. True but I just don't understand how these men don't see what's happening.

They,of all people should know the dangers of antisemitism and the mistake of ignoring it.

They should be pulling all funds from the Republican hate machine. As should all decent human beings of all religions and persuasions.

[Behind the Aegis]

23. I am sure they do.

Again, we are not monolith and we, too, have our share of callous assholes, just like Christians, the majority. We shouldn't be expected to be even better than any other group. Like others who fall into this category, they are likely selfish and go by the mantra "I got mine, fuck everyone else." I don't know if you read the thread here a few months back about the woman who's husband was deported and she was a proud Asshole supporter (I have gone almost two years without typing his name). They knew what type of person the Asshole was/is and yet....

There have always been members of minorities who either brainwashed into a Stockholm Syndrome type behavior, feel they can protect themselves (maybe a few others) by "going along, to get along", and then there are a few who are just rotten human beings. African-Americans sometimes call such individuals "Uncle Thomas" or "Aunt Jemima." Jews, we go back to one of our greatest disasters and call such enablers, kapos. But, those are usually the extremes. Frankly, many of our brethren on the opposite side feel the exact same way about us.

[Power 2 the People]

34. Thank you for your insightful explanation.

I really feel that your second paragraph explains it best.

There have always been members of minorities who either brainwashed into a Stockholm Syndrome type behavior, feel they can protect themselves (maybe a few others) by "going along, to get along", and then there are a few who are just rotten human beings. African-Americans sometimes call such individuals "Uncle Thomas" or "Aunt Jemima." Jews, we go back to one of our greatest disasters and call such enablers, kapos. But, those are usually the extremes. Frankly, many of our brethren on the opposite side feel the exact same way about us.

Thank you again for your thoughtful analysis.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. Bafflingly, there are black Republicans, too. And there are the Log Cabin Republicans,

an organization of LGBT people who keep begging to be included in the GOP even though the GOP has made it clear that it wants nothing to do with them and is hell-bent on taking away the civil rights they are finally starting to achieve. There will always be people who place a negative balance on the interests of their group/race/ethnicity versus their personal interests in such issues as tax cuts.

[riversedge]

16. Trump 'made plans to visit Pittsburgh this week also at the urging of his daughter and son-in-law'

Looks like the whole family will go to PA



https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-anti-semitism-pittsburgh-shooting-1191486?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter





The president made plans to visit Pittsburgh this week also at the urging of his daughter and son-in-law, who serve as senior White House advisers, according to The Times.

[Hekate]

18. When are those two going to get it? They are not safe, nor are their children. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

21. I am glad they did this.

I am also glad, for the most part, people here aren't dragging them over the coals. Look, I don't care for either one of them, but they did something, which is better than nothing, but either way they will lambasted. They shouldn't have had to do anything. A real president would have already known how to respond and how to act. Sadly, he is neither a real president or a descent human being. I also want people to think about the fact that every time something like this happens how people "expect" members of the affected group to "act a certain way". Generally, we don't like it when the other side demands our people act or speak out on their (the other side's) terms.

[RhodeIslandOne]

24. He wants to woo the Rob Bowers of the world still.

It probably bothers him more that one asshole didn't support him than 65,000,000 good folks.

[ck4829]

25. Kick

[appleannie1943]

26. He read the statement deadpan, with no emotion whatsoever.

It was obvious it was killing him to have to read the words that had been writted for him.

[C_U_L8R]

27. The fact that he needs persuading is pathetic

Trump is a racist and a bigot - unworthy and unfit and a disgrace to all of us

[NCjack]

29. Vote Trump off the island. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. It was probably something like this:

Ivanka: "Dad, you have to issue a statement. It's going to really embarrassing for me and Jared if you don't."

Tiny: "Oh, all right. Whatever. Write something for me. You can do the thoughts and prayers thing."

Ivanka: "And let me use your phone to tweet something about anti-Semitism so it'll look like it's from you."

Tiny: "Do you really have to mention anti-Semitism? Some people might take it the wrong way. I don't want George Soros to think he can keep funding the caravan of terrorists and rapists."

Ivanka: "Dad...!"

[0rganism]

31. and even then it came off as half-assed

our president: a surprisingly useless worthless individual who's extremely lucky we don't live in a meritocracy