We cats are hearing rumors that the Pittsburgh shooter didn't like Donald Trump because Trump didn't hate Jews enough. No doubt the White House and its Republican apologists will use that as a shield against any charges that they've encouraged and enabled crazy right wingers to shoot up synagogues — or to mail a bomb to, among others, Holocaust survivor George Soros.
Sorry, Trumpsters, there's too much in the record already.
Charlottesville is the biggie, of course — when Trump claimed that Dockers-clad white guys who marched with tiki torches and chanted "Jews will not replace us" had "very fine people" on their side. But there are plenty of other instances and episodes that we could cite:
Steve Bannon's ex-wife testified in her divorce proceedings that Bannon didn't want their daughters to go to L.A.'s Archer School for Girls because "he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews."
On his media tour for Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff said that Trump is the kind of guy who's "aware of who in the room is Jewish and who is not in a really creepy way."
Trump's ghostwriter Tony Schwartz has tweeted, "Anti-semites feel comfortable with Trump. You don't need to know more than that." (This reminds us of Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum's simple and devastating smackdown of his Republican gubernatorial opponent, Ron DeSantis: "The racists think you're a racist.")
But hey — why should we go on, when the Jewish leaders of Pittsburgh have been more eloquent on the subject than anyone? Writing today to Trump, who is threatening to visit, they've said this:
"You are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.
"Yesterday's massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country... The murderer...killed Jews in order to undermine the efforts of all those who find shared humanity with immigrants and refugees. You are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you commit yourself to compassionate, democratic policies that recognize the dignity in all of us."
Guess that means the trip's off, eh, White House? We cats HISS.
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