Trump makes baseless claim that Harris skipped Netanyahu’s speech due to antisemitism

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — US presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely accuses election rival Kamala Harris of being an antisemite who plans to allow the murder of newborn babies, in a speech meant to rally religious supporters that quickly went off the rails.

The vice president, who is married to a Jewish man, has gained ground on Trump in polling since she replaced Joe Biden on the top of the Democratic ticket just days ago.

Former Republican president Trump dedicates much of his address at a religious convention in southern Florida to assailing Harris’s record as a senator and as Biden’s number two, but many of his attacks are smears untethered to reality.

Explaining why 59-year-old Harris had missed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau’s speech to the US Congress on Wednesday to instead honor a prior commitment, Trump accuses her, baselessly, of antisemitism.

“She doesn’t like Jewish people. She doesn’t like Israel. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it’s always going to be. She’s not going to change,” he says.