The speakers on the trip come with a person who blamed the Jewish people for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Eric Trump, the son of former President Donald Trump, has threatened to sue MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for reporting, as she should, that she will participate in a white supremacist speaking excursion this weekend.
Eric Trump, who, along with his older brother, Donald Trump Jr. , helped run their father’s businesses during his tenure, will participate in the far-right ReAwaken America excursion that lately travels around the country. Tour speakers used the platform to spread unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, LGBTQ people, QAnon, and more. This weekend’s occasion is expected to take place at one of Donald Trump’s properties, Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida.
Several media organizations noted that the tour included speakers with white supremacist and Christian nationalist views. Some of the speakers are also known to espouse anti-Semitic ideals, adding far-right commentator Scott McKay, who has falsely claimed in the afterlife that the Other Jews orchestrated the September 11 attacks and were involved in the presidential assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy; and Charlie Ward, a right-wing commentator and Holocaust denier who praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and spread false claims that Jews were orchestrating the virus outbreak.
Other visitors speaking this weekend include: Trump’s former economic adviser, Peter Navarro; former national security adviser (and recipient of Trump’s pardon) Michael Flynn; Devin Nunes, executive director of Truth Social and former congressman; MyPillow CEO and Holocaust denier Mike Lindell; and Trump’s best friend and former political adviser, Roger Stone.
Flynn, who co-founded the tour, also expressed Christian nationalist and anti-Semitic views. At previous locations on the tour, Flynn said he wanted there to be only one “religion” (Christianity). He also shared anti-Jewish sentiments on social media, with Media Matters noting that in the past he tweeted a message saying, “Not anymore, Jews. “
Maddow, like other media personalities, reported on the event, expressing disbelief in his calendar Monday night that Eric Trump, the adult son of a presidential candidate considered by many to be the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2024, would sign up for speakers who blatantly express such sectarian views.
“I can’t, they’re actually moving forward,” Maddow said.
In reaction to her reporting, Eric Trump tweeted Tuesday night that he would pursue her or any reporter who continued to report on her engagement.
“If she or anyone else remotely suggests that I am an anti-Semite, I will not hesitate to take legal action against them personally,” Trump said in his tweet.
Joel Swanson, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Chicago who studies Jewish intellectual history, said Trump misrepresented what Maddow said in his report.
“What Rachel Maddow said is not that Eric Trump is anti-Semitic, but that he appears at a public event alongside Nazis and Holocaust deniers,” Swanson said. “It’s simply true. “
Trump also warned that he may simply not be anti-Semitic because he and his circle of relatives are fiercely “pro-Israel” (a perception Swanson said in his tweet was “revealing”), and not to be criticized for appearing in white clothes. supremacist speakers because she has relatives who are Jewish (her sister, Ivanka Trump, changed when she married her husband, Jared Kushner, and their children are Jewish).
However, there are many examples of Eric Trump and his circle of relatives expressing anti-Semitic ideals.
In August 2019, while still president, Donald Trump vilified American Jews as a non-unusual anti-Semitic trope, calling American Jews who voted for Democrats “disloyal” to Israel. During a presidential debate in 2020, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists when asked. do so through the moderator and his opponent, President Joe Biden.
Eric Trump’s brother, Donald Trump Jr. , used language invoking the Holocaust to his father’s political opponents.
Eric Trump has also been criticized for making anti-Semitic remarks. In 2018, he said journalist Bob Woodward promoted his Donald Trump ebook on CNN to “sell 3 more ebooks” and earn “3 more shekels. “
The word “shekels,” which refers to Israel’s currency, is used on far-right Internet sites in a derogatory manner opposed to the Jewish people, the bloodhounds noted at the time.
Chris Walker is a reporter for Truthout and is discovered in Madison, Wisconsin. Focusing on national and local issues since the early 2000s, he has produced thousands of articles analyzing the issues of the day and their effect on the American people. can be found on Twitter: @thatchriswalker
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