Trump slams Harris for doing absolutely nothing to combat antisemitism, calls on her to disavow the support of all Hamas sympathizers
Former President Donald Trump charged Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris has done “absolutely nothing” to combat the startling surge in antisemitism, and challenged the Democratic nominee to “disavow the support of all Hamas sympathizers” backing her campaign. “Despite presiding over this explosion of antisemitism, Kamala Harris has done absolutely nothing,” the 78-year-old Republican nominee said in remarks at a “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America” event in Washington, DC. “She has not lifted a single finger to protect you or to protect your children or to even protect you with words,” Trump continued. The former president called out Harris for expressing sympathy toward the anti-Israel protesters who erected encampments on college campuses across the country and allegedly terrorized Jewish students earlier this year. “Kamala Harris said that the radical demonstrators on college campuses were, ‘human emotion should be this way.’ This is her message,” Trump said. The GOP nominee was referencing a July interview the vice president did with “The Nation,” in which she said the campus disruptors were “showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza.” Harris went on to note that “there are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject” but that she “understand[s] the emotion behind it.”Trump denounced the vice president’s message as “dangerous” and “unbefitting” of a candidate for president. “I’m calling on Kamala Harris to officially disavow the support of all Hamas sympathizers, anti-Semites, Israel haters on college campuses and everywhere else,” he said. “She won’t do it.You know that.
She’s not going to do it,” Trump told the crowd. The event was hosted by Miriam Adelson, the co-owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and widow of GOP megadonor and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.Adelson praised Trump during her introduction, calling him ...