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Trump: Any Jew Voting Democratic is Uninformed or Disloyal

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - Showing a fresh willingness to play politics along
   religious lines, President Donald Trump said that American Jewish
   people who vote for Democrats show ``either a total lack of knowledge
   or great disloyalty.''

   Trump's claim triggered a quick uproar from critics who said the
   Republican president was trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes. It came
   amid Trump's ongoing feud with Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar of
   Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both Muslim.
   Trump has closely aligned himself with Israel, including its
   conservative prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the Muslim
   lawmakers have been outspoken critics of Israel's treatment of the
   Palestinians. Tlaib is a U.S.-born Palestinian American, while Omar was
   born in Somalia.
   "Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they
   are defending these two people over the state of Israel?" Trump told
   reporters in the Oval Office. "I think any Jewish people that vote for
   a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great
   disloyalty."
   At Trump's urging, Israel last week blocked Omar and Tlaib from
   entering the country. Israel later agreed to a humanitarian visit for
   Tlaib to visit her grandmother, who lives in the West Bank. Tlaib
   declined, saying her grandmother had ultimately urged her not to come
   under what they considered to be humiliating circumstances.

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