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TRUMP\u2019S \u00a0JEWS<\/a><\/h3>\nTOP ROW, left to right: Ivanka<\/a> (Trump\u2019s daughter); David F. Friedman<\/a> (Trump\u2019s attorney for the last 15 years and president of the American Friends of Bet-El, a West Bank settlement, has far-right pro-Israel ties and is a staunch supporter of illegal settlements; Steven Mnuchin<\/a> (investment banker and hedge fund manager, worked for Goldman Sachs 17 years, one of Trump\u2019s oldest friends).<\/strong><\/p>\nMIDDLE ROW, left to right: Jared Kushner<\/a> (Trump\u2019s Jewish son-in-law and chief adviser); Jason Greenblatt<\/a> (Trump\u2019s top adviser on Israel and Jewish affairs, Orthodox Jew of Hungarian descent, takes orders from Jared Kushner who is his immediate boss); Sheldon Adelson<\/a> (Casino mogul worth $32.2 billion, fanatical Zionist, gave Trump $125 million to win 2016 election, Trump\u2019s largest donor).<\/strong><\/p>\nBOTTOM ROW, left to right: (Charles Kushner<\/a>, Jared\u2019s father, a thoroughly disreputable character with criminal convictions; Michael D. Cohen<\/a> (attorney and spokesperson for Trump, described as \u201cTrump\u2019s pitbull\u201d, fanatically loyal to Trump, says anyone who thinks Trump doesn\u2019t love and admire Jews is \u201ctoo ignorant to engage in conversation\u201d.)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDONALD TRUMP:
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For my Canadian friend,\u00a0Lobro<\/a><\/strong>, a Trump supporter,<\/em>
\nin the hope that this debate will help him to change his mind.<\/em><\/p>\nEDITOR\u2019S NOTE. \u00a0This is an imaginary debate featuring multiple participants in which the words spoken are 100 per cent authentic and true<\/em>. To check the authenticity of any quote, just click on the name link and this will take you directly to the source of the quote. Lasha Darkmoon chairs the debate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nLASHA DARKMOON<\/strong>: \u00a0Yesterday marked the President\u2019s 100th day in power. Though he appears to have ditched most of his promises, his approval ratings have spiked upward \u00a0from a low of 37 per cent in March to over 43 per cent recently, largely as a result of his warlike exploits in Syria and Afghanistan. His popularity among Jews has certainly shot up in the last few weeks, as we shall see\u2026. \u00a0Wayne, I understand you are one of the large number of Jews who have always supported Donald Trump with unswerving loyalty. Can you explain your deep devotion to Trump? Is it because you think Trump is \u201cgood for the Jews\u201d?<\/p>\nWAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>I believe Donald Trump should be called \u201cAmerica\u2019s first Jewish president.\u201d I should know. I\u2019m an Ivy League-educated Jewish kid from New York. \u00a0Trust me, Donald Trump is as close as you can come to being our first Jewish president. The very unique traits that have made him a billionaire and now President of the United States are as Jewish as you can get!<\/p>\nLASHA DARKMOON<\/b>: \u00a0I find it hard to believe that Trump is \u201cas Jewish as you can get\u201d. If so, how has he managed to win the support of the alt.right which contains so many self-confessed anti-Semites?<\/p>\n
WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>Let me prove to you that Donald is our first Jewish president. Donald is a lifelong New York businessman, who made his fortune in real estate. You can\u2019t get more Jewish than that. Well actually you can. His winter home Mar-a-Lago is on the East Coast of South Florida. When he bought his Florida home and turned it into a popular and exclusive country club, he specifically opened the membership up to Jews. Mar-a-Lago was the first club that ever allowed Jews in Palm Beach. Donald changed the customs of the most-wealthy, WASP-y town in America to favor Jews.<\/p>\nLD<\/b>: My good friend Lobro is keeping his fingers crossed that Trump is going to ride to the rescue of the goyim and deliver them from Jewish thralldom any time soon. \u00a0What do you think of this theory? Any serious attempt to crack down on the Jews would of course be seen as double-crossing Jared and Ivanka and the grandchildren.<\/p>\n
WAYNE ALEYN ROOT<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>Donald is your typical Jewish parent.\u00a0Donald\u2019s children are all Ivy League graduates \u2014 just like my daughter who recently graduated magna cum laude<\/em> from Harvard.\u00a0Donald\u2019s daughter Ivanka has converted to orthodox Judaism. That makes Donald the first president in the history of America with orthodox Jewish grandkids.<\/strong><\/p>\nLD<\/b>: \u00a0So what you\u2019re saying is this: it\u2019s most unlikely Trump is going to oblige my anti-Zionist friend by sticking a knife in the back of his Orthodox Jewish family. Which is what he would be doing if he turned on the Jews and started protecting the Palestinians and other victims of Jewish supremacy. To what extent, I wonder, are Ivanka and Jared observant Orthodox Jews?<\/p>\n
NATHAN GUTTMAN<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have found a $5.5 million house near the Chabad Center in Washington, DC. More importantly, they seem to have found a synagogue as well. After weeks of house-hunting, the first daughter and son-in-law are now ready to settle down in Washington\u2019s Kalorama neighborhood and will attend the nearby Chabad synagogue. The couple has reportedly looked into joining Kesher Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Georgetown, but ended up preferring the smaller but more centrally located Chabad synagogue, led by Rabbi Levi Shemtov.<\/p>\nLD<\/b>: \u00a0I see. So if Trump decides to stick a knife in the back of his own synagogue-going, Chabad-loving daughter Ivanka, and if he throws his own Jewish grandchildren under the bus by suddenly revealing himself as anti-Jewish, that would require a lot of chutzpah, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: <\/strong>Donald has more\u00a0chutzpah\u00a0than anyone I\u2019ve ever met in my life! Chutzpah is a unique word that comes from the Yiddish language. It means you are so ambitious, you aim so high that people think you\u2019re nuts. Donald aims higher than anyone who has ever lived. Now he\u2019s President of the United States!<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0Wow, this is like a Hollywood movie!<\/p>\nWAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a> : <\/strong>Donald is a big success in Hollywood as a TV producer. He joins an exclusive club that is predominantly Jewish. Many of Donald\u2019s political views and policies are tailor-made for Jews<\/em>.\u00a0He could be the most pro-Israel president in history. Donald will always stand with the Jews of Israel.<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0I guess that\u2019s why Trump appears to have no strong objections to the expansion of Jewish settlements. This would certainly explain Trump\u2019s close ties to Jews promoting settlement expansion. I\u2019m referring to Jason Greenblatt, Trump\u2019s top adviser on Israel, and to David F. Friedman, Trump\u2019s long-term attorney and president of the American Friends of Bet-El, a West Bank settlement. (See above)<\/em>. How strong are Trump\u2019s bonds to Israel exactly? You ought to know, being Jewish.<\/p>\nWAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a> : <\/strong>How strong are Donald\u2019s bonds to Israel? He was the Grand Marshal of the annual \u201cSalute to Israel\u201d parade. The Jewish National Fund awarded Donald the \u201cTree of Life\u201d award for his lifetime of support for the Jewish people and the state of Israel. Jewish Week found that Donald has given generously for many years to Jewish charities. A professor of \u201cAmerican Jewish History\u201d calls Trump\u2019s charitable giving to Jewish causes \u201cimpressive\u201d and clearly out of the ordinary for a non-Jew.<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: My friend Lobro has a soft spot for Muslims. He also has a soft spot for Trump. I find this strange, given that Trump doesn\u2019t seem too fond of Muslims and wants to ban them from swarming into America \u2014 the dangerous ones, anyway.<\/p>\nWAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: <\/strong>Trump\u2019s stance on stopping the mass importation of Muslim refugees should be welcomed and enthusiastically embraced by every American Jew. Donald\u2019s goal is the same as mine \u2014 keeping people out of our country who could commit acts of terrorism and who have an unnatural hatred and prejudice toward Jews.<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0I see. So you like Trump precisely because he is ANTI-Muslim<\/em>. Is Iran going to be next on Trump\u2019s hit list? I mean, after he\u2019s turned Syria into a parking lot\u2026?<\/p>\nWAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a> : <\/strong>One of Donald\u2019s first priorities as president is to re-negotiate the Iran deal \u2014 perhaps the worst<\/em> treaty ever negotiated in US history and a danger to Israel\u2019s future survival. He understands our enemy is radical Islam. That alone makes Donald the best friend Jews ever had.<\/p>\n\u2014 \u00a0\u00a7 \u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n
LD<\/strong>: \u00a0Senator Lindsey Graham, I understand you have now done a complete 180-degree turn on Donald Trump. Before Trump was elected, you described him as a \u201cjackass\u201d for questioning John McCain\u2019s war record. You told Trump to \u201cgo to hell\u201d. \u00a0 You are now full of praise for Trump. Why?<\/p>\nSENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>I am like the happiest dude in America right now. We\u2019ve got a president and a national security team that I\u2019ve been dreaming<\/em> of for eight years! In 80 days he\u2019s done more to correct the world, President Trump, than Obama did in eight years.<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0I hear you met Trump recently. How good was your meeting?<\/p>\nSEN. LINDSAY GRAHAM<\/strong><\/a> : How good was the meeting? I gave him my new\u00a0cell phone number.<\/p>\nLD:\u00a0<\/strong> Do you have any personal message for Trump?<\/p>\nSEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Donald, keep it up! Don\u2019t let these guys talk you out of being tough.<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0Michael Cohen, may I ask you if you share Senator Graham\u2019s new-found enthusiasm for Donald Trump? What do you think of people who believe Trump is a crypto anti-Semite? that he\u2019s going to crack down hard on the Jews any day now?<\/p>\nMICHAEL \u00a0D. COHEN<\/a><\/strong> (Trump\u2019s \u201cpit bull\u201d spokesman<\/em>): \u00a0Nothing angers me more than the disgraceful liberal media\u2019s blatant mis-characterization of Mr. Trump as a racist. As the child of a Holocaust survivor, racism was never permitted in our home and I would never work for someone with those tendencies. Would a racist attend both of my children\u2019s Bat and Bar Mitzvahs? Would he make a Jew an executive at his company and task that person to protect him, his company, and children? Anyone who believes for even a split second that this is true is too ignorant to engage in conversation. Trump is a great man and will live up to his mantra of making America great again!<\/p>\nLD: \u00a0<\/strong>Make America great again? How can he \u201cmake America great again\u201d if he\u2019s sitting down to dinner with ex-convicts? I\u2019m referring to Trump\u2019s friendly relations with Jared Kushner\u2019s father, Charles Kushner, who has served time in prison for tax evasion and blackmail \u2014 for hiring prostitutes to blackmail witnesses in a court case. I mean, that\u2019s sleazy! And yet this guy is a bosom pal of Netanyahu\u2019s!\u2026 and he\u2019s wining and dining with Trump and Jared and Ivanka at Trump\u2019s palatial Mar-a-Lago estate<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(pictured<\/em>) in Florida. I find this weird! Is this the American presidency or the Jewish mafia?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.darkmoon.me\/uploads\/648x365xAP_17097573964780-1024x577.jpg.pagespeed.ic.PQ4-sfPU3I.webp\")
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White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, pictured center, at a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (See Jared Kushner and the Neocon Takeover of Trump<\/a>).<\/h5>\n\u2014 \u00a0\u00a7 \u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n
LD:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s also the question of nepotism. This is being practiced in the White House on an industrial scale, given that there\u2019s an enormous conflict of interest here that makes this nepotism particularly reprehensible. One hears negative reports about Jared and Ivanka. That they haven\u2019t got a clue about politics. That all they\u2019re fit for is feathering their own nests\u2026. Vicki Ward, you were discussing this topic recently on the Amy Goodman show. Can you give us a repeat of what you said there?<\/p>\nVICKI WARD<\/a><\/strong> (who has done extensive research on the Trump family\u2019s shady financial dealings<\/em>): We\u2019ve all been so consumed with the fight between the Kushner camp and the Bannon camp that this very real story of\u00a0horrifying kleptocracy that\u2019s never happened to this country before \u2014 the White House is turning into the Kushner piggy bank and the Trump piggy bank. I mean, this is outrageous! It is just a story of plain, outright corruption, and it\u2019s not legal!<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0Kleptocracy<\/em>? That\u2019s a strong word to apply to the President of the United States and his Jewish son-in-law and Star of David daughter<\/a><\/strong>. Why don\u2019t you think Jared Kushner is fit to exercise political power?<\/p>\nVICKY WARD<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Because he knows nothing!\u00a0He knows absolutely nothing!<\/em><\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0And Ivanka?<\/p>\nVICKI WARD<\/a>: <\/strong>What are these two people actually in there to DO? Their only experience is working for their parents. That\u2019s it! It seems to me this is all about self-interest. They\u2019re not QUALIFIED to do anything else!<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: What do we know about Jared Kushner? One thing we know for sure. Charles Kushner, Jared\u2019s jailbird father, a convicted blackmailer, is a close friend of Netanyahu\u2019s. All these guys have sat down to dinner with Donald Trump at his house in Florida. How can the President of the United States be hobnobbing with all these sleazy characters? What\u2019s going on exactly?<\/p>\nRON KAMPEAS<\/strong><\/a> (Jerusalem Post columnist<\/i>): \u00a0 Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners and particularly Jared\u2019s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: Does Jared wear a kippa and run with the Jews?<\/p>\nRON KAMPEAS<\/a> :<\/strong> \u00a0Jared stopped wearing his kippah when he attended Harvard. The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reported that Kushner maintained other Orthodox observances at the university \u2013 \u00a0JTA [Jewish Telegraph Agency] has reported his closeness to the university\u2019s Chabad House \u2013 but the head-covering was gone\u2026. Kushner has also met with Henry Kissinger.<\/p>\nDANIEL ESTRIE<\/a> <\/strong>(Associated Press, from Jerusalem<\/em>): \u00a0Kushner\u2019s family real estate company has long-standing and ongoing deals with major Israeli financial institutions. These relationships, along with a personal friendship with Netanyahu and past links to the West Bank settler movement, could emerge as potential stumbling blocks by creating an appearance of bias.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s son-in-law [Jared] was also co-director of a family foundation that donated tens of thousands of dollars to Jewish settlement groups in the West Bank, according to US tax records. The family also donated at least $298,600 to the Friends of the Israel Defence Forces. Kushner and his family also have long-standing personal ties to Netanyahu. At a White House news conference last month, Netanyahu joked that he has known [Jared] Kushner since he was a boy.<\/p>\n
LD:<\/strong> \u00a0So Trump and his family have close ties with Netanyahu, Kissinger and other top Jews that stretch back to the time Jared gave up his bed and moved into the basement of his house so that Netanyahu could have his bedroom?<\/p>\nBEN NORTON<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(AlterNet correspondent<\/em>): \u00a0The ties go deeper still. Kushner directed a family foundation that gave money to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which were constructed in flagrant violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. President Trump himself previously donated $10,000 to the illegal Israeli settlement Beit El.<\/p>\nLD:<\/strong> \u00a0Wow! \u2014 so Trump has been caught redhanded donating $10,000 to an illegal settlement in Israel! And Jared is also an enthusiastic fan of illegal settlements! Will someone please tell me how the Palestinians can hope to get a fair deal from ultra-Zionist mafiosi like these? If these thugs are financing illegal settlements, how on earth can they be expected to negotiate a viable Palestinian state in which the Palestinians get back a small proportion of their stolen lands?<\/p>\nBEN NORTON<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0The Trump administration has made it absolutely clear that it is going to let Israel continue violating international law, building new settlements and colonizing Palestinian land. And American taxpayers will continue bankrolling Israel\u2019s crimes, as every previous US presidential administration has ensured.<\/p>\nRICHARD SPENCER<\/a><\/strong> (White nationalist alt.right leader<\/em>): No one voted for Kushner! Indeed, many of us voted against people like Kushner having power\u2026. \u00a0I have to be brutally honest. I am deeply disappointed in Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>. I\u2019m shocked, and I\u2019m angry. And I am ready to condemn Donald Trump.<\/p>\nDAVID DUKE<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0All around him are these Jewish extremists like Kushner. Trump might not even know half the things they do.<\/p>\nRICHARD SPENCER<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0No one voted for this! No one voted for Donald Trump in order for him to engage in these kinds of senseless, insane military interventions [Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, threatening Iran, antagonizing Russia]\u2026. Donald Trump now sounds exactly like George W. Bush\u2026. Trump is playing with fire\u2026. THIS REALLY MATTERS!\u2026 Trump is playing with fire. This is a red line Donald Trump has crossed\u2026 this is a betrayal of the meaning of his campaign\u2026 that was the meaning of his campaign and he ABSOLUTELY BETRAYED IT!\u2026. This matters, because it proves that Donald Trump IS NOT IN CONTROL!\u2026 He is being controlled by neoconservative operatives\u2026\u201d<\/p>\nANDREW ANGLIN<\/a><\/strong> (who makes no secret of his anti-Semitism<\/em>): Our president is being held hostage by vicious Jews!<\/p>\nLD<\/strong>: \u00a0I\u2019m saddened to hear all this\u2026. Wayne, as a Jew, can you give us your final assessment of Donald Trump?<\/p>\nWAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a><\/strong> : Many of Donald\u2019s friends, business partners, executives at the Trump organization, country club members at Mar-a-Lago and trusted lawyers and advisers are Jewish. No US president has ever in history been surrounded by so many Jewish friends and advisers.\u00a0Trust me, by almost every possible measurement, we\u2019ve just elected our first Jewish president.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.darkmoon.me\/uploads\/650x433xPicture1-2.png.pagespeed.ic.gviIyCouod.webp\")
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\u201cI\u2019ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognise dangerousness from a mile away. You don\u2019t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0\u2014 James Gilligan, professor of psychiatry, addressing a conference at Yale University.<\/strong><\/p>\n
MIDDLE ROW, left to right: Jared Kushner<\/a> (Trump\u2019s Jewish son-in-law and chief adviser); Jason Greenblatt<\/a> (Trump\u2019s top adviser on Israel and Jewish affairs, Orthodox Jew of Hungarian descent, takes orders from Jared Kushner who is his immediate boss); Sheldon Adelson<\/a> (Casino mogul worth $32.2 billion, fanatical Zionist, gave Trump $125 million to win 2016 election, Trump\u2019s largest donor).<\/strong><\/p>\n BOTTOM ROW, left to right: (Charles Kushner<\/a>, Jared\u2019s father, a thoroughly disreputable character with criminal convictions; Michael D. Cohen<\/a> (attorney and spokesperson for Trump, described as \u201cTrump\u2019s pitbull\u201d, fanatically loyal to Trump, says anyone who thinks Trump doesn\u2019t love and admire Jews is \u201ctoo ignorant to engage in conversation\u201d.)<\/strong><\/p>\n For my Canadian friend,\u00a0Lobro<\/a><\/strong>, a Trump supporter,<\/em> EDITOR\u2019S NOTE. \u00a0This is an imaginary debate featuring multiple participants in which the words spoken are 100 per cent authentic and true<\/em>. To check the authenticity of any quote, just click on the name link and this will take you directly to the source of the quote. Lasha Darkmoon chairs the debate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n LASHA DARKMOON<\/strong>: \u00a0Yesterday marked the President\u2019s 100th day in power. Though he appears to have ditched most of his promises, his approval ratings have spiked upward \u00a0from a low of 37 per cent in March to over 43 per cent recently, largely as a result of his warlike exploits in Syria and Afghanistan. His popularity among Jews has certainly shot up in the last few weeks, as we shall see\u2026. \u00a0Wayne, I understand you are one of the large number of Jews who have always supported Donald Trump with unswerving loyalty. Can you explain your deep devotion to Trump? Is it because you think Trump is \u201cgood for the Jews\u201d?<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>I believe Donald Trump should be called \u201cAmerica\u2019s first Jewish president.\u201d I should know. I\u2019m an Ivy League-educated Jewish kid from New York. \u00a0Trust me, Donald Trump is as close as you can come to being our first Jewish president. The very unique traits that have made him a billionaire and now President of the United States are as Jewish as you can get!<\/p>\n LASHA DARKMOON<\/b>: \u00a0I find it hard to believe that Trump is \u201cas Jewish as you can get\u201d. If so, how has he managed to win the support of the alt.right which contains so many self-confessed anti-Semites?<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>Let me prove to you that Donald is our first Jewish president. Donald is a lifelong New York businessman, who made his fortune in real estate. You can\u2019t get more Jewish than that. Well actually you can. His winter home Mar-a-Lago is on the East Coast of South Florida. When he bought his Florida home and turned it into a popular and exclusive country club, he specifically opened the membership up to Jews. Mar-a-Lago was the first club that ever allowed Jews in Palm Beach. Donald changed the customs of the most-wealthy, WASP-y town in America to favor Jews.<\/p>\n LD<\/b>: My good friend Lobro is keeping his fingers crossed that Trump is going to ride to the rescue of the goyim and deliver them from Jewish thralldom any time soon. \u00a0What do you think of this theory? Any serious attempt to crack down on the Jews would of course be seen as double-crossing Jared and Ivanka and the grandchildren.<\/p>\n WAYNE ALEYN ROOT<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>Donald is your typical Jewish parent.\u00a0Donald\u2019s children are all Ivy League graduates \u2014 just like my daughter who recently graduated magna cum laude<\/em> from Harvard.\u00a0Donald\u2019s daughter Ivanka has converted to orthodox Judaism. That makes Donald the first president in the history of America with orthodox Jewish grandkids.<\/strong><\/p>\n LD<\/b>: \u00a0So what you\u2019re saying is this: it\u2019s most unlikely Trump is going to oblige my anti-Zionist friend by sticking a knife in the back of his Orthodox Jewish family. Which is what he would be doing if he turned on the Jews and started protecting the Palestinians and other victims of Jewish supremacy. To what extent, I wonder, are Ivanka and Jared observant Orthodox Jews?<\/p>\n NATHAN GUTTMAN<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have found a $5.5 million house near the Chabad Center in Washington, DC. More importantly, they seem to have found a synagogue as well. After weeks of house-hunting, the first daughter and son-in-law are now ready to settle down in Washington\u2019s Kalorama neighborhood and will attend the nearby Chabad synagogue. The couple has reportedly looked into joining Kesher Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Georgetown, but ended up preferring the smaller but more centrally located Chabad synagogue, led by Rabbi Levi Shemtov.<\/p>\n LD<\/b>: \u00a0I see. So if Trump decides to stick a knife in the back of his own synagogue-going, Chabad-loving daughter Ivanka, and if he throws his own Jewish grandchildren under the bus by suddenly revealing himself as anti-Jewish, that would require a lot of chutzpah, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: <\/strong>Donald has more\u00a0chutzpah\u00a0than anyone I\u2019ve ever met in my life! Chutzpah is a unique word that comes from the Yiddish language. It means you are so ambitious, you aim so high that people think you\u2019re nuts. Donald aims higher than anyone who has ever lived. Now he\u2019s President of the United States!<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0Wow, this is like a Hollywood movie!<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a> : <\/strong>Donald is a big success in Hollywood as a TV producer. He joins an exclusive club that is predominantly Jewish. Many of Donald\u2019s political views and policies are tailor-made for Jews<\/em>.\u00a0He could be the most pro-Israel president in history. Donald will always stand with the Jews of Israel.<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0I guess that\u2019s why Trump appears to have no strong objections to the expansion of Jewish settlements. This would certainly explain Trump\u2019s close ties to Jews promoting settlement expansion. I\u2019m referring to Jason Greenblatt, Trump\u2019s top adviser on Israel, and to David F. Friedman, Trump\u2019s long-term attorney and president of the American Friends of Bet-El, a West Bank settlement. (See above)<\/em>. How strong are Trump\u2019s bonds to Israel exactly? You ought to know, being Jewish.<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a> : <\/strong>How strong are Donald\u2019s bonds to Israel? He was the Grand Marshal of the annual \u201cSalute to Israel\u201d parade. The Jewish National Fund awarded Donald the \u201cTree of Life\u201d award for his lifetime of support for the Jewish people and the state of Israel. Jewish Week found that Donald has given generously for many years to Jewish charities. A professor of \u201cAmerican Jewish History\u201d calls Trump\u2019s charitable giving to Jewish causes \u201cimpressive\u201d and clearly out of the ordinary for a non-Jew.<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: My friend Lobro has a soft spot for Muslims. He also has a soft spot for Trump. I find this strange, given that Trump doesn\u2019t seem too fond of Muslims and wants to ban them from swarming into America \u2014 the dangerous ones, anyway.<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a>: <\/strong>Trump\u2019s stance on stopping the mass importation of Muslim refugees should be welcomed and enthusiastically embraced by every American Jew. Donald\u2019s goal is the same as mine \u2014 keeping people out of our country who could commit acts of terrorism and who have an unnatural hatred and prejudice toward Jews.<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0I see. So you like Trump precisely because he is ANTI-Muslim<\/em>. Is Iran going to be next on Trump\u2019s hit list? I mean, after he\u2019s turned Syria into a parking lot\u2026?<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a> : <\/strong>One of Donald\u2019s first priorities as president is to re-negotiate the Iran deal \u2014 perhaps the worst<\/em> treaty ever negotiated in US history and a danger to Israel\u2019s future survival. He understands our enemy is radical Islam. That alone makes Donald the best friend Jews ever had.<\/p>\n \u2014 \u00a0\u00a7 \u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0Senator Lindsey Graham, I understand you have now done a complete 180-degree turn on Donald Trump. Before Trump was elected, you described him as a \u201cjackass\u201d for questioning John McCain\u2019s war record. You told Trump to \u201cgo to hell\u201d. \u00a0 You are now full of praise for Trump. Why?<\/p>\n SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM<\/a>: \u00a0<\/strong>I am like the happiest dude in America right now. We\u2019ve got a president and a national security team that I\u2019ve been dreaming<\/em> of for eight years! In 80 days he\u2019s done more to correct the world, President Trump, than Obama did in eight years.<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0I hear you met Trump recently. How good was your meeting?<\/p>\n SEN. LINDSAY GRAHAM<\/strong><\/a> : How good was the meeting? I gave him my new\u00a0cell phone number.<\/p>\n LD:\u00a0<\/strong> Do you have any personal message for Trump?<\/p>\n SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Donald, keep it up! Don\u2019t let these guys talk you out of being tough.<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0Michael Cohen, may I ask you if you share Senator Graham\u2019s new-found enthusiasm for Donald Trump? What do you think of people who believe Trump is a crypto anti-Semite? that he\u2019s going to crack down hard on the Jews any day now?<\/p>\n MICHAEL \u00a0D. COHEN<\/a><\/strong> (Trump\u2019s \u201cpit bull\u201d spokesman<\/em>): \u00a0Nothing angers me more than the disgraceful liberal media\u2019s blatant mis-characterization of Mr. Trump as a racist. As the child of a Holocaust survivor, racism was never permitted in our home and I would never work for someone with those tendencies. Would a racist attend both of my children\u2019s Bat and Bar Mitzvahs? Would he make a Jew an executive at his company and task that person to protect him, his company, and children? Anyone who believes for even a split second that this is true is too ignorant to engage in conversation. Trump is a great man and will live up to his mantra of making America great again!<\/p>\n LD: \u00a0<\/strong>Make America great again? How can he \u201cmake America great again\u201d if he\u2019s sitting down to dinner with ex-convicts? I\u2019m referring to Trump\u2019s friendly relations with Jared Kushner\u2019s father, Charles Kushner, who has served time in prison for tax evasion and blackmail \u2014 for hiring prostitutes to blackmail witnesses in a court case. I mean, that\u2019s sleazy! And yet this guy is a bosom pal of Netanyahu\u2019s!\u2026 and he\u2019s wining and dining with Trump and Jared and Ivanka at Trump\u2019s palatial Mar-a-Lago estate<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(pictured<\/em>) in Florida. I find this weird! Is this the American presidency or the Jewish mafia?<\/p>\n \u2014 \u00a0\u00a7 \u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n LD:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s also the question of nepotism. This is being practiced in the White House on an industrial scale, given that there\u2019s an enormous conflict of interest here that makes this nepotism particularly reprehensible. One hears negative reports about Jared and Ivanka. That they haven\u2019t got a clue about politics. That all they\u2019re fit for is feathering their own nests\u2026. Vicki Ward, you were discussing this topic recently on the Amy Goodman show. Can you give us a repeat of what you said there?<\/p>\n VICKI WARD<\/a><\/strong> (who has done extensive research on the Trump family\u2019s shady financial dealings<\/em>): We\u2019ve all been so consumed with the fight between the Kushner camp and the Bannon camp that this very real story of\u00a0horrifying kleptocracy that\u2019s never happened to this country before \u2014 the White House is turning into the Kushner piggy bank and the Trump piggy bank. I mean, this is outrageous! It is just a story of plain, outright corruption, and it\u2019s not legal!<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0Kleptocracy<\/em>? That\u2019s a strong word to apply to the President of the United States and his Jewish son-in-law and Star of David daughter<\/a><\/strong>. Why don\u2019t you think Jared Kushner is fit to exercise political power?<\/p>\n VICKY WARD<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Because he knows nothing!\u00a0He knows absolutely nothing!<\/em><\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0And Ivanka?<\/p>\n VICKI WARD<\/a>: <\/strong>What are these two people actually in there to DO? Their only experience is working for their parents. That\u2019s it! It seems to me this is all about self-interest. They\u2019re not QUALIFIED to do anything else!<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: What do we know about Jared Kushner? One thing we know for sure. Charles Kushner, Jared\u2019s jailbird father, a convicted blackmailer, is a close friend of Netanyahu\u2019s. All these guys have sat down to dinner with Donald Trump at his house in Florida. How can the President of the United States be hobnobbing with all these sleazy characters? What\u2019s going on exactly?<\/p>\n RON KAMPEAS<\/strong><\/a> (Jerusalem Post columnist<\/i>): \u00a0 Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners and particularly Jared\u2019s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: Does Jared wear a kippa and run with the Jews?<\/p>\n RON KAMPEAS<\/a> :<\/strong> \u00a0Jared stopped wearing his kippah when he attended Harvard. The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reported that Kushner maintained other Orthodox observances at the university \u2013 \u00a0JTA [Jewish Telegraph Agency] has reported his closeness to the university\u2019s Chabad House \u2013 but the head-covering was gone\u2026. Kushner has also met with Henry Kissinger.<\/p>\n DANIEL ESTRIE<\/a> <\/strong>(Associated Press, from Jerusalem<\/em>): \u00a0Kushner\u2019s family real estate company has long-standing and ongoing deals with major Israeli financial institutions. These relationships, along with a personal friendship with Netanyahu and past links to the West Bank settler movement, could emerge as potential stumbling blocks by creating an appearance of bias.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s son-in-law [Jared] was also co-director of a family foundation that donated tens of thousands of dollars to Jewish settlement groups in the West Bank, according to US tax records. The family also donated at least $298,600 to the Friends of the Israel Defence Forces. Kushner and his family also have long-standing personal ties to Netanyahu. At a White House news conference last month, Netanyahu joked that he has known [Jared] Kushner since he was a boy.<\/p>\n LD:<\/strong> \u00a0So Trump and his family have close ties with Netanyahu, Kissinger and other top Jews that stretch back to the time Jared gave up his bed and moved into the basement of his house so that Netanyahu could have his bedroom?<\/p>\n BEN NORTON<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(AlterNet correspondent<\/em>): \u00a0The ties go deeper still. Kushner directed a family foundation that gave money to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which were constructed in flagrant violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. President Trump himself previously donated $10,000 to the illegal Israeli settlement Beit El.<\/p>\n LD:<\/strong> \u00a0Wow! \u2014 so Trump has been caught redhanded donating $10,000 to an illegal settlement in Israel! And Jared is also an enthusiastic fan of illegal settlements! Will someone please tell me how the Palestinians can hope to get a fair deal from ultra-Zionist mafiosi like these? If these thugs are financing illegal settlements, how on earth can they be expected to negotiate a viable Palestinian state in which the Palestinians get back a small proportion of their stolen lands?<\/p>\n BEN NORTON<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0The Trump administration has made it absolutely clear that it is going to let Israel continue violating international law, building new settlements and colonizing Palestinian land. And American taxpayers will continue bankrolling Israel\u2019s crimes, as every previous US presidential administration has ensured.<\/p>\n RICHARD SPENCER<\/a><\/strong> (White nationalist alt.right leader<\/em>): No one voted for Kushner! Indeed, many of us voted against people like Kushner having power\u2026. \u00a0I have to be brutally honest. I am deeply disappointed in Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>. I\u2019m shocked, and I\u2019m angry. And I am ready to condemn Donald Trump.<\/p>\n DAVID DUKE<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0All around him are these Jewish extremists like Kushner. Trump might not even know half the things they do.<\/p>\n RICHARD SPENCER<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0No one voted for this! No one voted for Donald Trump in order for him to engage in these kinds of senseless, insane military interventions [Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, threatening Iran, antagonizing Russia]\u2026. Donald Trump now sounds exactly like George W. Bush\u2026. Trump is playing with fire\u2026. THIS REALLY MATTERS!\u2026 Trump is playing with fire. This is a red line Donald Trump has crossed\u2026 this is a betrayal of the meaning of his campaign\u2026 that was the meaning of his campaign and he ABSOLUTELY BETRAYED IT!\u2026. This matters, because it proves that Donald Trump IS NOT IN CONTROL!\u2026 He is being controlled by neoconservative operatives\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n ANDREW ANGLIN<\/a><\/strong> (who makes no secret of his anti-Semitism<\/em>): Our president is being held hostage by vicious Jews!<\/p>\n LD<\/strong>: \u00a0I\u2019m saddened to hear all this\u2026. Wayne, as a Jew, can you give us your final assessment of Donald Trump?<\/p>\n WAYNE ALLEYN ROOT<\/a><\/strong> : Many of Donald\u2019s friends, business partners, executives at the Trump organization, country club members at Mar-a-Lago and trusted lawyers and advisers are Jewish. No US president has ever in history been surrounded by so many Jewish friends and advisers.\u00a0Trust me, by almost every possible measurement, we\u2019ve just elected our first Jewish president.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognise dangerousness from a mile away. You don\u2019t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0\u2014 James Gilligan, professor of psychiatry, addressing a conference at Yale University.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDONALD TRUMP:
\nAMERICA\u2019S FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT?<\/h3>\n
\nin the hope that this debate will help him to change his mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWhite House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, pictured center, at a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (See Jared Kushner and the Neocon Takeover of Trump<\/a>).<\/h5>\n
<\/p>\nOUR \u00a0FIRST \u00a0JEWISH \u00a0PRESIDENT<\/h3>\n