five years ago, the concept of even talking about this, even three years ago, of cutting off aid to israel because of two people that hate israel and hate jewish people, i can t believe we re even having this conversation. where is the democratic party gone, where have they gone, where they re defending these two people over the state of israel. and i think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. the new york times notes that quote trump did not go into specifics about what he considered to be jews disloyalty, but the anti-semitic smear that jews have a loyal ty. joining us now, john meachum, an
nbc news, and msnbc contributor. john, jewish groups predictably, and rightfully, attacking the president for using an anti-semitic trope. there is a long and sorted history of anti-semitism across america, across europe, where jews have been attacked for being insufficiently disloyal. the president of the united states used that anti-semitic trope yesterday, accusing about 75, 80% of jews in america of being quote disloyal. and what we have yet again is an example where the president s acting in contradiction to the best parts of american
with anti-semites. we dealt with this during the campaign in 2016 when he refused to condemn his fans that attacked jewish journalists. when he ran the closing ad of his campaign, which was basically kind of the greatest hits of the elders of zion, when he re-tweeted the photo shopped image of hillary clinton with the star of david with a pile of money, and deflected and said it was an illusion to frozen. during the charlottesville event, when people were chanting jews will not replace us. the trope has a history and so does donald trump. that s what s been so fascinating and disturbing over the past several months. donald trump is actually attacking democratic congresswomen for being