Bombshell Interview: ‘Vote for Trump if you Love Israel’

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From Darkmoon:
Bombshell Interview: 'Vote for Trump if you Love Israel'
https://www.darkmoon.me/2020/bombshell-interview-vote-for-trump-if-you-love-israel/#more-147369

A recent interview with Trump's key Jewish advisor and campaign manager reveals a shocking truth: if you vote for Trump, you are in fact voting for Israel and Jewish supremacy.

By Lasha Darkmoon
October 18, 2020

While surfing the internet yesterday, I happened to come across a link to an explosive article by Jackson Richman (October 15) on the Algeimeiner website. This featured an interview between the Algeimeiner website and  Boris Epshteyn  (pronounced 'Epstein' with a 'sh' in it), key strategic advisor for US President Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign.

Epshteyn is one of President Trump's key Jewish advisors, the kingpin in his election campaign. He has direct access to the president at all times. He has been the election campaign's point person for Jewish outreach, through the "Jewish Voices for Trump" coalition, which was set up in September only a few weeks ago. Here the Algeimeiner site interviewer talks with Boris Epshteyn by telephone. The interview took place last week (on October 7) and has been edited for brevity and clarity by the site editor itself.

This interview is pure dynamite and I intend to quote from it at great length The original may be read here.  https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/15/trumps-jewish-point-person-president-has-fought-antisemitism-everywhere-and-anywhere/

The interview proves conclusively what I have already suspected for some time: that Trump, far from being a "Zionist puppet" as alleged  by his harsher critics, myself included,  actually supports Israel because he loves it. Deeply and sincerely. There is no coercion here, forcing him into supporting Israel reluctantly and against his will.  No pressure, no hint of blackmail—though it is widely suspected that Mossad has the goods on him via the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile scandal.

On the contrary, this is a passionate love affair between an American president and the Jewish people whom he truly adores. Heart and soul. If you, too, happen to share Trump's infatuation with Israel and the Jewish people, then Trump is your man. Go out and vote for him on November 3, if only for Israel's sake.

That is the message of this electrifying interview I am about t quote verbatim to you.

The JNS site interviewer begins by asking: "Can you describe your background, especially where you are from and how your identity plays a role in the re-election campaign for US President Donald Trump?"

Boris Epshteyn responds candidly, making no attempt to conceal his impressive Jewish background: "I'm originally from the former Soviet Union," he tells us. "I came here in 1993 from Moscow. We were Jewish refugees."

This was the period of the Jewish oligarchs, when predatory Russian Jews in high places where stealing the resources of Mother Russia with the help of their drunken president, Boris Yeltsin.

Boris Epshteyn continues smoothly: "I worked on the John McCain campaign, was a surrogate on the Mitt Romney campaign, then I was a supporter, then a surrogate and then senior advisor overseeing surrogate messaging on the 2016 Trump campaign. I was communications director for the inauguration, assistant communications director at the White House. I was the chief political commentator at Sinclair Broadcast Group, and now I'm the strategic advisor at the Trump campaign, and I'm the co-chair of "Jewish Voices for Trump."

An impressive CV, to be sure. Mr Epshteyn has much to be proud of. A desperate refugee at one moment, fleeing persecution in his native Russia because of his Jewishness, and in no time at all—hey presto!—he rises to the top of the political totem pole by becoming a panjandrum  in the Trump administration. Wonders will never cease.

In terms of my Jewish background, it's obviously extremely important to me, and I'm proud to be the point person for Jewish outreach for the Trump campaign and make it clear he is the most pro-Israel president in the history of this country. It's definitely been promises made, promises kept.   

Note that well, dear reader. And stop bashing the president for making promises and breaking them! The important thing, according to Trump's Jewish kingpin in the White House, is that Trump has kept every single promise he has made o Israel. In fact, Trump has given Benjamin Netanyahu everything he asked for, and even more than he probably expected.

If you have any doubts on this score, click on the video linked above and look at the expression on Netanyahu's face as Trump hands him the Golden Key to the White House. Bibi looks like the cat who has just been given the biggest bowl of cream. He is positively purring with delight.

Mr Epshtyn waxes eloquent on the heroic effort this ultra-Zionist president has made to counter antisemitism and promote Holocaust awareness.  "On the international front and domestically, the president has fought antisemitism everywhere and anywhere," he enthuses. "He's enabled federal agencies to combat antisemitism as a hate crime. He has fought antisemitism on college campuses, classifying it as a violation of a hate crime under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We just saw the first settlement under such auspices between New York University and the US Department of Education. The president also signed the 2017 JUST Act. He also signed the Never Again Education Act, which provides $10 million for education on the Holocaust for our younger generations."

Trump's main supporters are America's White Nationalists. The White Nationalists who throng the Darkmoon site are all excellent fellows, unstinted in their admiration for their charismatic president whom they regard as America's New Messiah. What they fail to understand however, according to Epshteyn, is that their heroic president  does not reciprocate their admiration. Trump, in short, does not love the White Nationalists as much as the White Nationalists love him. In fact, he despises them, and is cynically making use of them.

Let Epshteyn explain:

INTERVIEWER: Why didn't the president condemn white nationalists during the first presidential debate?

EPSHTEYN: He did.

INTERVIEWER: He said he was willing to, but didn't actually do so.

EPSHTEYN: You asked, let me answer. When [Fox News anchor and debate moderator] Chris Wallace asked him if he condemns white nationalists, Trump said, "Sure." And did so repeatedly. However, the question was supposed to be, "Does Joe Biden condemn Antifa?" but that never ended up being asked of Joe Biden. And Joe Biden mentioned the Proud Boys.

The president has come out and condemned the Proud Boys and white nationalists. People on the left attack the president for everything, and many of those in the media try to find some sort of hole somewhere to attack the president, but he's been absolutely clear in his condemnation of white supremacists, white nationalists, the KKK and the Proud Boys.

How anyone can still believe that Trump is secretly a hater of the Jews and plans, in the fullness of time, to pull the rug away from under the feet of international Jewry, simply beggars belief. But this crazy conspiracy theory still rears in ugly head in the unlikeliest places, in particular in my own website. Here a diehard Trump supporter is allowed, in the interests of free speech, to peddle the Alice and Wonderland theory that "Trump is the New Stalin", Scourge of the Jews!  Give him time and you will see! He will turn all the Jews into mincemeat!

Mr Epshteyn has  word of kindly advice for this well-meaning and amiable fanatic:

If anybody out there [still] thinks that the president of the United States—he has a Jewish daughter, Jewish grandchildren, Jewish son-in-law, has had Jewish people surrounding him throughout his career in business and now has had Jewish people surrounding him in senior positions in his administration—is anything close to antisemitic, they're absolutely kidding themselves. All they have to do is look at the facts.

Our amiable Trump fanatic prefers not to look at facts, however,  and likes to argue that the Palestinians are experiencing far fewer problems now, under the benevolent and peace-loving Trump, than under the belligerent Obama. One look at this article—Israel builds 12,000 new settlements in 2020—would be enough to convince any reasonable observer that Trump is the bubonic plague to the Palestinians. But logic and reason have no place in the brains of a man bitten by the bug of Trump idolatry.

I will mention here in passing that we have on our website a commenter who is willing to die for the Flat Earth Theory. For crazy old coots like this, anger is the wrong response. The Flat Earth theorists and the Trump Idolators  need our compassion and understanding. We need to pray for them, not hate them.

It will come as a shock to the fanatical Trump supporter  mentioned above to learn that Jews in increasing numbers are now flocking toward the Trump flag. He won't like this one little bit, being a hardline antisemite who thinks Trump himself is a crypto-antisemite.  "Jewish voters," Epshteyn informs us, "are [now] moving towards President Trump. I think that's going to continue."

The interviewer asks: "What would a second Trump term mean for the Jewish community?"

Epshteyn's response: "The continued support of Israel is obviously vital to the Jewish community. Continuing to fight against antisemitism is vital for the Jewish community. As long as President Trump is in office, Jewish Americans are safe from the rabid antisemitism of the far-left."

Trump's Jewish campaign manager could not possibly make it any clearer than he has already done that the Jewish people and Trump are joined at the hip. The President means to take every step to stamp out antisemitism.  If that means the criminalization of Holocaust denial and severe punishment for the egregious crime of criticizing Israel, then so be it. This will have to wait though. It will doubtless be on the agenda if Trump gets a second term, Epshteyn believes.

The interview end with a fanfare of adulation for Israel:

INTERVIEWER: If he wins a second term, how does the president plan to address growing antisemitism in the United States, not only on the far-left but also on the far-right?

EPSHTEYN: The president has absolutely fought against antisemitism, and that's what the executive order last year does. It doesn't just fight antisemitism everywhere, not just the far-left. The president will continue to support the Department of Justice and the federal agencies in fighting antisemitism.

INTERVIEWER: In three sentences: Why should Jewish and pro-Israel voters cast their vote for Trump?

EPSHTEYN:  Combating antisemitism. Championing Israel. Making America great again.

[maz]

What I find interesting in all of this is how little focus there is on Israel in terms of the presidential debate. Has Israel been brought up in the media at all lately? The last time I remember was when Trump gave the keys to the White House to Netanyahu.

I didn't think that was all that big a deal since Israelis has infested the White House for decades now. The most egregious Israeli incident was when Netanyahu addressed Congress and received six million standing ovations.

I remember during the 2008 televised debates, Israel was a hot topic. I do not recall it having come up in the presidential debate, but it did come up in the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. I found the transcript, did ctrl F and found 16 mentions of Israel in an hour and a half long debate.

Transcript of Palin, Biden debate

PALIN: No, I do not believe that it has been. But I'm so encouraged to know that we both love Israel, and I think that is a good thing to get to agree on, Sen. Biden. I respect your position on that.

The media and the Trump administration are both omitting Israel for some reason which I still find odd because Pence is evangelical philosemite.

Trump has overwhelming support of Israeli Jews (but media and Dems aren't going to tell you that)

By Philip Weiss and James North - October 19, 2020

A recurring theme on this site is that Americans have no idea of Israel's real character, a rightwing society with a strong militarist authoritarian streak. Israel supporters don't want that picture to get out in the U.S., because they will surely lose bipartisan political support for the $4 billion we send Israel every year, and the complete impunity we provide for Israel's human rights violations. Israel needs to be as American as cherry pie.

An astonishing poll from Israel bears this idea out. Trump is backed more than three to one by Israeli Jews — 77 to 23 percent among those with an opinion. Israeli Jews love our fascistic president.

American Jews could not be more different. They like Biden by the same overwhelming proportion. Trump is losing to Biden among American Jews by 70 to 27 percent, according to Pew's survey in early October.

American Jewish numbers are very close to the Palestinian numbers in Israel. (Palestinians are 20 percent of the citizens of Israel within the 1967 borders.) Palestinians favor Biden by 41 to 11 percent, among those with an opinion — according to the poll by the Mitvim Institute.

American Jews don't like Trump because he is friendly to racist white nationalists.

Palestinians don't like Trump because he is friendly to expansionist Jewish nationalists.

Israeli Jews love Trump, and could care less about his racist friends.

How can these attitudes be reconciled? After all, American Jews are the pillar for Israel's support in the Democratic Party. They can't; these are two diametrically-opposed political cultures. Jewish Israel is a lot like the Jim Crow south; Jews have more rights than Palestinians, including land and language, and Jews campaign for prime minister by promising voters they won't let Palestinians into the government.

If Americans had any real sense of that political culture, a lot more of them would be critical, and would ask why our money is going to such a discriminatory society.

Chemi Shalev in Haaretz broke the story on the Israeli polling, from the Mitvim Institute. 57 percent of Israeli Jews are for Trump, 17 percent are for Biden. That's a 77 to 23 ratio among those with an opinion. Throw in the Palestinian voters, and Trump wins 70 percent overall of the Israeli vote.

That makes Israel redder than any U.S. state, Shalev says:

Shalev notes that Trump crushes Biden among religious Israeli Jews — 77 to 1 percent — and among Netanyahu's Likud Party voters — 80 to 2 percent. Those numbers are not so different from Trump's favorability among American Orthodox Jews (83 to 13, Trump over Biden).

But the Orthodox make up only 10 percent of American Jewry. Nearly two out of three American Jews are Reform.

The bottom line is that American Jews have very different political values than Israeli Jews. And it's evidence that the Democratic leadership is backing policies that the Democratic street is not.

Democratic leadership calls Israel a beacon of democracy, the startup nation, and a miracle and a gift and a jewel. Nancy Pelosi says the Capitol will crumble and fall before the Democratic Party walks away from Israel.

These Democratic leaders aren't going to tell you that Israeli society overwhelmingly adores Donald Trump, because the Israel lobby is too important for the party. And Haaretz's reporting hasn't shown up in the American papers, of course.

Biden is doubling down on his love for Israel these days. The Israel lobby group Democratic Majority for Israel is tweeting out pro-Israel statements by Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris's husband, to Florida voters (from the Jewish Journal):

"For Kamala, Israel isn't a political football. Its future as a secure Jewish and Democratic state is non-negotiable. I can assure you all of that.

"To this day, she always talks about visiting one of the great places of the world, the Israeli Supreme Court, which I got to go see because of her," Emhoff said. "Now she wants to use this leadership, this platform and this opportunity to lay down roots of peace and safety for all of Israel and Israel's children."

DMFI tweets Congresswoman Susan Wild from Pennsylvania, in a close race, saying Israel must absolutely not be even debated in the U.S.

"I really think that it is very important to make sure that all matters pertaining to Israel be not even a bipartisan issue but a nonpartisan issue. I feel really strongly that the people recognize that the members of Congress on both sides of the aisle overwhelmingly support Israel, overwhelmingly want to see Israel safe and secure and succeed, and recognize that we have a wonderful relationship with Israel that is not just about security—although that is obviously the most important—but a very strong economic relationship with Israel."

The Israeli polling (from a thinktank called Mitvim) raises the question: Why would anyone wants to be such close friends of Israel? It is another authoritarian rightwing country somewhere across the sea. The polling also belies the line from liberal Zionists like J Street, that the only problem with Israel is Netanyahu; when in fact the alternative, Benny Gantz, pushes the same anti-Palestinian policies.

The sad truth is that if Biden wins, Israelis will like him fine. Because his policies won't be so different from Trump's — except on the Iran deal. The polling indicates a battle ahead inside the Democratic Party, and in American Jewish life too.