Other than Donald Trump, Jared Kushner is the only one in the former administration that has blood on his hands through his own direct actions. One will never find anyone at this site riding to Kushner’s rescue because Trump unloaded his anti-Semitism on Jared. We most certainly will publicize what happened in defense of Jews everywhere.

Reports from Bob Woodward’s new book indicate that Trump liked to take his long-rumored anti-Semitism out for a walk while in the White House. According to the new book Peril:

‘”You know,” Trump joked in a White House meeting, mocking his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was raised in a modern Orthodox Jewish family and was working on Middle East peace, “Jared’s more loyal to Israel than the United States,”‘ Woodward and Costa wrote, according to Insider. 

The Guardian notes that this is an old anti-Semitic trope:

Suggesting that American Jews are more loyal to Israel than the United States or hold a dual allegiance ‘has been used to harass, marginalize and persecute the Jewish people for centuries,’ the Anti-Defamation League told Insider.

Centuries might be stretching it a bit since Israel was founded in 1947 but we will give them a pass. The Guardian pointed to another instance in which his “dual loyalty anti-Semitism was on display:

Earlier in 2019, Trump was speaking to Jewish Americans at an event sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition and referred to Israel’s then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘your prime minister.’ 

Only Trump, speaking to a group of people, some of whom likely couldn’t spell Netanyahu, because they are more American than Donald Trump, could say “your Prime Minister. Of course, this comes from a guy who at one point said to John Kelly, “Hitler did some good things.” And, Trump was likely the only American president to keep a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside:

A 1990 Vanity Fair article about billionaire businessman stated that Mr Trump’s then wife Ivana, said her husband owned a copy of “My New Order” – a printed collection of the Nazi leader’s speeches.

He never tried to hide it, which makes one think that he found it acceptable or at least understandable.

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