Trump calls Democrats 'anti-Jewish,' seeking advantage in party's divisions
by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times
Mar 08, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump claimed Friday that Democrats oppose Israel and Jews, reacting in a most incendiary way to the party's controversy over recent remarks by a Muslim congresswoman, even as Republicans confronted their own divisions over hate speech.
Trump's remarks came as he blasted a House-passed resolution, proposed by Democrats, to stanch a furor over comments from freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that were widely criticized as anti-Semitic. All Democrats voted Thursday for the resolution, which generally condemned hate speech without mentioning Omar,
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