{"id":103894,"date":"2016-08-18T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103894"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T21:12:46","slug":"trump-adviser-accused-of-making-anti-semitic-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103894","title":{"rendered":"Trump adviser accused of making anti-Semitic remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

REPORT<\/a>: WASHINGTON Allegations of anti-Semitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving.<\/p>\n

Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago that he pushed out Jewish employees.<\/p>\n

The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump\u2019s credibility: That he is a foreign policy neophyte, and that his campaign, at times, has offended Jews and other minorities.<\/p>\n

Schmitz, who is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, says the allegations against him are lies. All three people who have cited the remarks, including one who testified under oath about them, have pending employment grievances with the federal government.<\/p>\n

Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community, described Schmitz\u2019s remarks in his complaint file.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis summary of his tenure\u2019s achievement reported as \u2018\u2026I fired the Jews,\u2019 \u201d wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general\u2019s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy…<\/p>\n

In his complaint, Meyer said Crane also said Schmitz played down the extent of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his final days, he allegedly lectured Mr. Crane on the details of concentration camps and how the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews,\u201d wrote Meyer, whose complaint is before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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