http://www.dailywire.com/news/5522/donald-trumps-world-anti-semitism-run-amok-hank-berrien#pq=TKwc1zDonald Trump's World: Anti-Semitism run amokBY: HANK BERRIEN MAY 6, 2016
On Wednesday night, Donald Trump showed why he’ll never have the class of Ronald Reagan, or even Bernie Sanders.
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Trump if he had a “message” for his “fans” who had spawned a myriad of anti-Semitic comments directed at Julia Ioffe, who wrote in GQ last week about Trump’s wife Melania. Melania Trump had ripped Ioffe on Facebook after the article was published.
Trump’s fans went nuts:
Ioffe was called on the phone and heard Adolf Hitler speeches played back to her. The white supremacist website Daily Stormer titled a piece, “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!”
So how did the vile candidate respond to Blitzer’s question? Remember, this is the same guy who refused to denounce KKK leader David Duke’s support in February, pretending he didn’t know who he was.
Here’s how the exchange with Blitzer went with the Great Unifier: Trump ignored the question and ripped the article, calling it very inaccurate” and “nasty” before asserting, “they shouldn’t be doing that with wives.” This from the man who savagely attacked Heidi Cruz.
Blitzer, determined, followed up, “But the anti-Semitic death threats that have followed -- ” Trump: “Oh, I don't know about that. I don't know anything about that. You mean fans of mine?”
Blitzer pressed the point home: “Supposed fans of posting these very angry—but your message to these fans is?”
Put on the spot, Trump showed his true colors: “I don’t have a message to the fans,” instead blustering, “A woman wrote an article that’s inaccurate.”
Ioffe is not alone in being sent violent threats and hate from anti-Semitic Trump supporters. Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has written about the unrelenting hate directed at him and other Jewish public figures who have been critical of Trump including Jake Tapper of CNN, columnist Bethany Mandel, (who bought a gun because the threats were so frightening) and John Podhoretz of Commentary. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post has also been targeted.
Trump, on the other hand, has no moral compass other than this: what is good for Trump is moral, what is bad for Trump is immoral.
As The Atlantic noted:
When Ronald Reagan was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1984, he made it clear in a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that he despised the Klan and absolutely did not want its support. Reagan wrote in part, “The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country, and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood.”
In February, when Jake Tapper asked Bernie Sanders about the supporters who had been making sexist comments online in support of his candidacy, he denounced them unequivocally. The Vermont senator told Tapper, “I have heard about it. It’s disgusting.” Not only did he pledge that his campaign would try to stop these sexist attacks, he declared, “We don’t want them. I don’t want them. That is not what this campaign is about.”
Trump, on the other hand, has no moral compass other than this: what is good for Trump is moral, what is bad for Trump is immoral. Thus the fans of his who are some of the most vile people on earth elicit no condemnation.
Welcome to Donald Trump’s world, where racism and bigotry are perfectly acceptable as long as the practitioner is a member of the Trump cult.
