Trump campaign chief: Supporter yelling ‘Jew S.A.’ is ‘deplorable’

Using language used by Clinton to describe GOP nominee’s supporters, Kellyanne Conway says man shouting anti-Semitic phrase doesn’t represent candidate

A Trump supporter chants 'Jew S.A.' at a rally for the Republican nominee in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
A Trump supporter chants 'Jew S.A.' at a rally for the Republican nominee in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Sunday condemned as “deplorable” a Trump supporter who was filmed chanting “Jew S.A.” at the media during an election rally.

“His conduct is completely unacceptable and does not represent our campaign or our candidate,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper, who is Jewish.

Conway also called the man “deplorable,” echoing Hillary Clinton’s much-criticized comment, when she said half of all Trump supporters are “deplorables.”

In the video filmed at a rally Saturday, the man in clad a “Hillary for Prison” T-shirt yells “Jew S.A.” repeatedly while pointing at reporters while making a hand gesture associated with the Illuminati. Others at the rally, who were chanting “U.S.A.,” looked on and smiled.

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Conway told Tapper that if she had been at the rally she would have ordered him to be removed. “I think what he had to say is disgusting.”

She also denied that Trump has refused to seriously condemn anti-Semites and other racists who support him.

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Convention center in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Caitlin O'Hara)
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Convention center in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Caitlin O’Hara)

The Trump campaign has faced repeated accusations that the campaign is countenancing anti-Semitism, if not encouraging it outright.

In his defense, Trump and his supporters cite the fact that his daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren are all Jewish.

Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway speaks to NBC's "Meet the Press" on October 23, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. (screen capture: YouTube)

It’s the second week in a row that Tapper has had to deal with anti-Semitic expressions. Last week former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling pressed Tapper to explain why so many Jews support the Democratic Party.

Schilling, who is registered as an Independent, announced that he is considering a 2018 Senate bid in Massachusetts as a Republican to unseat Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Schilling is an outspoken supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling on CNN, October 22, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling on CNN, October 22, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

“I would like to ask you something as a person who is practicing the Jewish faith and has since you were young. I don’t understand — and this is, maybe this is the amateur, non-politician in me — I don’t understand how people of Jewish faith can back the Democratic Party, which over the last 50 years has been so clearly anti-Israel, so clearly anti-Jewish Israel,” Schilling said.

“I don’t know what else would need to be done, said or happen for people to understand that they don’t — the Democratic Party is aligned for Israel only because we have agreements in place to make them have to be.”

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