{"id":95096,"date":"2016-05-06T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95096"},"modified":"2016-05-06T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:30:02","slug":"republican-jewish-group-endorses-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95096","title":{"rendered":"Republican Jewish Group Endorses Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many pro-Trump pieces has the parochial Jewish media run? I don&#8217;t recall any from Tabletmag or the Forward or the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/breaking-news\/340033\/republican-jewish-group-endorses-donald-trump-exacerbating-feud\/\">Forward<\/a>: The main Republican Jewish group has endorsed Donald Trump for president, driving a fresh wedge between politically conservative Jews whose conflict over the presumptive nominee played out online on Wednesday, the day after Trump won the Indiana Republican primary.<br \/>\nThe Republican Jewish Coalition posted on Twitter a message from its national chairman, David Flaum, congratulating Trump on his presumptive nomination, and saying there was \u201cunity\u201d among Republicans in the belief that Hillary Clinton \u201cthe worst possible choice for a commander in chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But unity was hard to find as Republican Jews turned on each other, with some recoiling in horror at the idea of supporting a candidate they see as unprincipled, while others insisted that while Trump has his failings, he\u2019s still a better choice than Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p>In response to an earlier endorsement of Trump by Ari Fleischer, who serves on the organization\u2019s board, conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin wrote on Twitter that the organization would be \u201cdead to me\u201d if they followed Fleischer\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriFleischer\" target=\"_blank\">@AriFleischer<\/a><br \/>\n No, No, NO. And if RJC backs him they are dead to me.<br \/>\n\u2014 Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRubinBlogger\/status\/727698549564182529\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"async\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Noam Neusner, a former speechwriter for the White House and Mitt Romney, said Trump does not represent the values of the Republican party.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoamNeusner\" target=\"_blank\">@NoamNeusner<\/a><br \/>\n says \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DonaldTrump?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#DonaldTrump<\/a><br \/>\n does not align with  the \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RepublicanParty?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#RepublicanParty<\/a><br \/>\n\u2019s traditions or America\u2019s core values: \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hXco7EGVZL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hXco7EGVZL<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 abc730 (@abc730) \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abc730\/status\/727801597707722752\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"async\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A vote for Trump was \u201ccompletely wrong,\u201d tweeted Allen Ginzburg, who has written for conservative publication \u201cRed Alert Politics\u201d and is an avid user of the #NeverTrump hashtag.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriFleischer\" target=\"_blank\">@AriFleischer<\/a><br \/>\n And you will be completely wrong to do so.<br \/>\n\u2014 AG (@AG_Conservative) \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AG_Conservative\/status\/727674701380620288\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"async\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under George W. Bush, exposed an emerging fault line that could split both the Republican party and Jewish conservatives, when he expressed his support for Trump on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>There\u2019s a lot about Donald Trump that I don\u2019t like, but I\u2019ll vote for Trump over Hillary any day.<br \/>\n\u2014 Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriFleischer\/status\/727674606681792512\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"async\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liberal Jews also condemned Fleischer\u2019s Tweet. Peter Beinart, a political commentator and journalist who is an outspoken opponent of Israeli settlements, said Fleischer\u2019s tweet was not unexpected.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriFleischer\" target=\"_blank\">@AriFleischer<\/a><br \/>\n about what i would have expected<br \/>\n\u2014 Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterBeinart\/status\/727675240206241792\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"async\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Prominent journalist Julia Ioffe, who was the victim last week of anti-Semitic<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/breaking-news\/339709\/journalist-flooded-with-neo-nazi-hate-after-writing-melania-trump-profile\/\">attacks<\/a><br \/>\n by Trump supporters after writing a profile about the Republican candidates\u2019s wife, pointed out that Fleischer had only hours earlier posted a link to an article that criticized the real estate mogul for lying about his support of the Iraq War.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>These were tweeted by the same human, consecutively.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPYB869IdC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yPYB869IdC<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliaioffe\/status\/727706682529333248\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"async\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Fleischer\u2019s tweet did not only receive negative reaction. It had been retweeted over 1,800 times and received over 3,600 likes by Wednesday late afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was criticized for drawing on anti-Semitic stereotypes when he referred to Jews as deal \u201cnegotiators\u201d and said they would not support him \u201cbecause I don\u2019t want your money\u201d during a December meeting with the Republican Jewish Coalition. He was also booed by the crowd when refusing to declare Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many pro-Trump pieces has the parochial Jewish media run? I don&#8217;t recall any from Tabletmag or the Forward or the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. 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