Trump: ‘Never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust’ to be Jewish in the US

Former US president Donald Trump says at a rally in Pennsylvania that there has “never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust” to be Jewish in the US.

Speaking in Wilkes-Barre, the Republican presidential candidate claims that Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro wasn’t picked to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate in the upcoming elections because he is Jewish.

“They turned him down because he’s Jewish,” Trump says, echoing an accusation first made by his running mate JD Vance. The claim has been rejected both by the Democratic party and by Shapiro himself, who said that “antisemitism had no impact” on the decision-making process.

“They turned him down for other reasons, but the primary reason is because he’s Jewish,” Trump continues, telling the crowd that “any Jewish person that votes for her [Harris] or a Democrat has to go out and have their head examined.”

“If you see what’s happening with Israel and Jewish people, there has never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust if you happen to be Jewish in America,” Trump says.