CNN political analyst Paul Begala was unsparing when asked about former President Donald Trump's latest attack on the majority of American Jews.
Trump said this week that the majority of American Jews should feel "ashamed" because they don't vote for Republicans, while also claiming that American Jews "hate Israel" and even hate their own religion.
Begala said Trump's contempt for American Jews shouldn't come as a surprise given his other past statements.
"This is a man who admires Hitler," Begala said, referring to claims by former Trump chief of staff John Kelly that Trump told him that Hitler "did some good things" despite being one of the worst mass murderers in the history of the world. "Kelly says that Trump praised Adolf Hitler in his presence. We know from Trump's first wife, the late Ivana Trump, that Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed. We know that Trump traffics in anti-Semitic tropes all the time. We know that he had dinner with an alleged Holocaust denier at his lovely resort at Mar-a-Lago. So there are facts about Donald Trump and Jews."
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Begala acknowledged that Trump's latest outburst probably won't hurt him politically given all his past racist outbursts but he added that "I just have to speak the truth, which is that Mr. Trump has a really disgusting history of admiring Adolf Hitler."
Trump has long ranted about American Jews voting for Democrats despite what he says is a strong record of supporting Israel.
"I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty," Trump fumed in 2019.
More than two-thirds of American Jews voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 and polls have consistently shown Trump to have very low approval among Jews.
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