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Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, known as former President Donald J. Trump “a recognized antisemite” in a video launched on Tuesday, a notable escalation of assaults by President Biden’s marketing campaign towards Mr. Trump over his language about Jews.
Mr. Emhoff’s remarks got here in a day social media submit by the Biden marketing campaign with the anodyne title “Second Gentleman @DouglasEmhoff responds to Trump attacking Jewish Americans.”
“The final individual I’m going to take recommendation from as a Jewish individual is a recognized antisemite who’s had dinner with antisemites, who mentioned there was ‘good individuals on each side’ after Charlottesville,” Mr. Emhoff says within the video, after he apparently watches a weeks-old video of Mr. Trump proclaiming that Jews who vote for Mr. Biden “need to have their head examined.”
Mr. Emhoff provides for emphasis, “He’s the final individual I’m going to take recommendation from.”
The Biden marketing campaign has been looking for to increase a information cycle that started this week when Mr. Trump posted, then later took down, a video on social media that included old-time newspaper headlines saying a victory by him in November would carry a couple of “unified Reich.” Mr. Biden, in a video launched by his marketing campaign, accused Mr. Trump of utilizing “Hitler’s language.”
The Biden marketing campaign and its surrogates have beforehand condemned Mr. Trump for utilizing antisemitic language. Two weeks in the past, a Biden marketing campaign spokesman, Charles Lutvak, blasted Mr. Trump for using “patronizing antisemitic shtick” after the previous president mentioned Jews who voted for Mr. Biden “needs to be ashamed of themselves.”
Mr. Trump has lengthy flirted with antisemitic language and imagery, and proven help for far-right backers who’re overtly antisemitic.
In 2016, his marketing campaign posted after which deleted a picture of Hillary Clinton, then his general-election rival, with a pile of money and the phrases “most corrupt candidate ever” inside a Star of David. Once in workplace, he infamously declared that there have been “very advantageous individuals” on each side of the 2017 rally involving neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. Days after saying his 2024 marketing campaign, Mr. Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is likely one of the nation’s most outstanding younger white supremacists.
Yet it’s Mr. Biden who has recently discovered himself in a political vise involving American Jews. His help for Israel’s authorities after the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas, which killed greater than 1,200 individuals, has led to fierce criticism from Arab and Muslim Americans, progressives and different Democrats because the reported loss of life toll in Gaza has swelled to greater than 34,000 Palestinians. More just lately, he has been known as anti-Israel for saying that he would pause the cargo of some weapons to the nation.
Meanwhile, American school campuses had been racked this spring with encampments and demonstrations towards the struggle in Gaza, and Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris have been dogged for months by protests over the battle. On Tuesday, as Ms. Harris spoke to union members at a Philadelphia conference heart, about three dozen individuals at the back of the occasion chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and held up indicators that mentioned “employees stand up” and “free Palestine.”
Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, didn’t immediately reply to Mr. Emhoff’s remarks within the Tuesday video. Instead, he sought to tie the protests towards Israel’s struggle in Gaza to Mr. Biden whereas portray opposition to the struggle as antisemitic.
“Joe Biden is liable for all this antisemitic hate on campuses throughout the nation,” Mr. Cheung mentioned. “Whereas there was no larger buddy to Israel and the Jewish individuals than President Trump, and his sturdy file displays that.”
Nicholas Nehamas contributed reporting from Philadelphia.
