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Monday, July 29, 2024
Trump quotes Netanyahu as saying Jews vote blue out of ‘habit,’ reiterates claim that ‘Democrats hate Israel’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reiterates his assertion that “Democrats hate Israel,” speaking at a donor event in New Jersey last night.
The former US president says he asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the two met in Florida on Friday why Jewish people vote for the Democratic party and that the Israeli premier answered, “It’s a habit.”
????????✡️ — BELAAZ EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump told a group of Jewish donors in Deal, NJ tonight that he asked Israeli PM Netanyahu during their meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Friday – “Why do Jews still vote for Democrats?”
According to Trump, Netanyahu replied, “It's a habit.”
Trump then… pic.twitter.com/CnTVf4bCRH
— Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) July 29, 2024
Trump’s comments — publicized in a recording obtained by Belaaz News — come after he said over the weekend that Jews who support presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris or the Democratic Party should “have their head examined,” after the VP’s “terrible and insulting” meeting with Netanyahu on Thursday and her absence from the prime minister’s speech to Congress on Wednesday.
He has a history of accusing Jewish Democrats of betraying their religion and Israel. In April, when Joe Biden was still the presumptive Democratic nominee, Trump had also said that Jewish Biden voters “should have their head examined.”
The Times of Israel Community.