Fuming MSNBC host gets personal about Trump's 'insulting' smears of Jews
Reacting to new comments Donald Trump made about Jews where he attacked them as disloyal to America if they refuse to vote for him, Bulwark managing editor and fill-in MSNBC host Sam Stein was visibly fuming as he pushed back on Friday's "Morning Joe."
The normally unflappable Stein lashed out at the former president on multiple fronts, but admitted that, as a Jew, he takes Trump's comments as a personal attack.
Prompted by co-host Joe Scarborough, who stated, "He had said that any Jew that doesn't vote for him is not a good Jew, and when he talks to Americans who happen to be Jewish, he calls Benjamin Netanyahu 'your prime minister.' He calls the Israeli ambassador to America 'your ambassador,' calls the country 'your country,' suggesting that if you're a Jew, you're not fully American," Stein delivered a scathing rebuttal.
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"Yeah, he's talked about the dual loyalty trope," he began. "I think people need to understand this: the dual loyalty trope is inherently anti-Semitic because it suggests that people like me, Jews who were born in America, we're not loyal to America but only to the Jews in the Jewish state and he's pushed this stuff since running for president.
"And then he gets up there and says, you know the real threats to anti-Semitism on the other side and [Kamala Harris husband] Doug Emhoff, who is the first Jewish spouse to serve in the big four, that being president, vice president, is not really sufficiently Jewish," he added.
"I don't think people can quite appreciate how insulting that is, but also how deflating that can be because Jewish-Americans are Americans," he added. "We don't identify with Israel because it's our faith. In fact, a lot of Jewish-Americans find the Israeli government in its current incarnation abhorrent."
"We have the capacity for independent thought. We have the capacity for loyalty to America and he removes that from us when he says things like the things that you just read," he concluded.
Later in the segment, Donnie Deutsch, also Jewish, called Trump's slurs "Disgusting."
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