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Trump, in meeting on Texas floods, says ‘Palestinian’ Chuck Schumer has ‘abandoned the Jews’

By Jacob Magid 8 July 2025, 8:01 pm
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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump claims that the “Palestinian senator” Chuck Schumer “abandoned the Jews.”

Trump makes the comments during a cabinet meeting when speaking about the flash floods in Texas.

Schumer yesterday asked a government watchdog to investigate whether the Trump administration’s cuts at the National Weather Service affected the forecasting agency’s response to catastrophic and deadly flooding in Central Texas.

Trump has repeatedly used “Palestinian” as an epithet to refer to Schumer, the highest-ranking elected Jewish official in the US.

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