When I posted earlier this week about white nationalists and neo-Nazis harassing Jewish journalists for writing supposedly objectionable things about Donald Trump and his wife, some commenters replied that antisemites comprise only a small minority of Trump’s supporters and that Trump himself is not antisemitic.
That is probably true and utterly beside the point– which is that Trump doesn’t seem terribly bothered by the support he receives from these jerks.
It turns out that one of the journalists, Julia Ioffe, was targeted by the vile neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, which told followers to “go ahead and send her a tweet and let her know what you think of her dirty kike trickery.”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Trump on May 4 and asked if he would denounce the anti-Semitic death threats against Ioffe. Trump refused to condemn the threats, saying he was unaware of them and adding, “I don’t have a message to the fans. A woman wrote a article that was inaccurate.”
Trump’s refusal to condemn their behavior has thrilled Trump’s neo-Nazi fans. Daily Stormer editor Andrew Anglin responded to the interview with the headline, “Glorious Leader Donald Trump Refuses to Denounce Stormer Troll Army.” He began:
Asked by the disgusting and evil Jewish parasite Wolf Blitzer to denounce the Stormer Troll Army, The Glorious Leader declined.
The Jew Wolf was attempting to Stump the Trump, bringing up stormer attacks on Jew terrorist Julia Ioffe. Trump responded to the request with “I have no message to the fans” which might as well have been “Hail Victory, Comrades!”
Read that again carefully. Trump did not take the opportunity to tell his Jew-hating fans that he doesn’t want their support. He didn’t even tell them to stop harassing and threatening Jewish journalists. Instead he simply said: “I don’t have a message to the fans.” This apparently includes his Nazi-loving fans.
I only wonder if Trump’s Jewish supporters know about this, and if they do, what they think about it. That starts with his daughter Ivanka and her husband.
