Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned former President Donald Trump on Tuesday in a strongly worded speech from the Senate floor after Trump attacked Jewish Americans who vote for the Democrats.
Schumer’s speech was mostly about the Senate’s efforts to keep the government funded, but he began by saying he wanted to address “the reprehensible and dangerous comments made yesterday by former President Trump.”
“The former president’s comments were utterly disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of anti-Semitism facing Jews,” Schumer continued, adding:
Pushing the dangerous anti-Semitism trope of dual loyalty to say you hate Israel or your religion, excuse me, to say you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other is sick. It’s hateful. It is unadulterated anti-Semitism, and it serves to use Israel as a political wedge further damaging the bonds between US and Israel.
We have always tried. I’ve always tried through the years to keep …