Here are five questions CNN needs to ask Donald Trump:
1. You have said that when you retweeted the tweets of avowed white supremacists, you did so inadvertently. What steps have you taken to make sure this doesn’t happen again?
2. Why do you think your campaign is so popular among groups and web sites that espouse racist anti-Mexican, anti-black and anti-Semitic ideas?
3. The head of the ADL has said your campaign has energized white supremacist groups. Does that concern you? What will you do about it?
4. FBI statistics show that white supremacist and militia groups have killed more Americans on American soil over the past decade than have Islamic-inspired attacks. What will you do in a Trump presidency to combat these groups?
5. You have two Jewish grandchildren. Your campaign was just endorsed by David Duke, who has espoused vicious anti-Semitism for years. Why do you think he’s drawn to your candidacy? What is your message to David Duke?
If I were Donald J. Trump, I’d reply to Rob Eshman:
* What’s a white supremacist? How is that different or worse from black supremacists and Jewish supremacists and Muslim supremacists and Japanese supremacists? Were the founders of the United States of America white supremacists? They only made provision for citizenship for white people of good character.
* Harry Truman wrote: “I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, yellow men in Asia and white men in Europe and America.” He also referred to the Blacks on the White House staff as “an army of coons.” Was President Harry Truman a white supremacist?
* Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one [whites], preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immovable veil of black, which covers all the emotions of the other race?” Was Jefferson a white supremacist and a hater?
* In Federalist Paper #2, John Jay wrote about America: “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.” Sounds like a white supremacist to me.
* Alexander Hamilton did not want more immigrants, even from Europe: “the influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.” Sounds like an American supremacist to me.
* White supremacist Abraham Lincoln said: “I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.”
* Jewish labor leader Samuel Gompers said: “It must be clear to every thinking man and woman that while there is hardly a single reason for the admission of Asiatics, there are hundreds of good and strong reasons for their absolute exclusion.” Sounds like a white supremacist to me.
* President James Garfield wrote: “[I have] a strong feeling of repugnance when I think of the negro being made our political equal and I would be glad if they could be colonized, sent to heaven, or got rid of in any decent way.” Sounds like a white supremacist to me.
* Why do you think Democratic politicians receive so much support from communists? Does it not bother you that communists have murdered more people than those espousing any other political ideology? Why do you think so many Jews became communists (about a million Jews in America by the 1950s were either communists or socialists)? Why did many Jews support the rise of communism in Russia and Europe and America?
* Is the ADL a Jewish supremacist organization? Is it a Jewish nationalist organization? Why do Jewish organizations like the ADL seek the opposite for the goyim (multiculturalism) compared to what Jewish groups seek for Jews (cohesion)?
* Why do you think you are drawn to so many people who want to deny cohesion to whites? Why don’t whites have the same rights and group interests as other groups such as blacks, Jews, Muslims and Mexicans?
