Former Sen. JoeLieberman: I don't think realDonaldTrump is antisemitic, but 'he's got to cut it out'
Echoing the backlash from both the Left and the Right, Lieberman, who is Jewish, warned that the dinner elevated antisemitism and racism in the country and said the saga greatly diminishes"loser" Trump's odds of scoring the GOP nod in 2024 or winning a second term as president.
"You can't claim this innocence anymore. People say he's not an antisemite. I don't believe he is either. But you come to a point where you begin to say things and do things that encourage racism and antisemitism, and people are going to think, 'Oh, maybe that's really who he is,'" Lieberman told CBS."He's got to cut it out."
"He knows what Kanye West has been saying. ... He knows that international businesses have cut ties with West because of his antisemitism, and yet he invites him to Mar-a-Lago," Lieberman chided."All anybody close to the president had to do was to go online and Google or Wikipedia [Fuentes], and it just jumps out how foul he is."
Fuentes has trafficked in Holocaust denialism and peddled white supremacist rhetoric, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Fuentes has downplayed those allegations, saying,"I reject all labels other than Christian American" in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
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