Fox Newser: Trump’s ‘Basically Right’ to Say Jewish Dems ‘Hate Their Religion’

Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer defended Donald Trump’s recent claim that Jewish people who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and “their religion,” insisting on Tuesday that the former president was “basically right” even though he “put it indelicately.”

During a Monday radio interview with former White House aide Seb Gorka, Trump sparked intense criticism when he (once again) peddled the antisemitic trope that Jewish Americans have a dual loyalty to Israel and the United States.

“I actually think they hate Israel. I don’t think they hate him, I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat Party hates Israel,” Trump said, reacting to Democratic criticism of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.