Day 112.
I’m horrified and angered with the way the President has used a Joint Session of Congress to vilify the immigrant communities that hold our country together.
I’m horrified that the President has said nothing about the murder of an Indian man in Kansas in what was clearly a racially motivated terrorist attack.
I want you not to forget what the President said about the antisemitic attacks that have been going on. Not during the speech tonight, but before.
He suggested, in his typically clumsy, plausibly deniable way, that Jews themselves might be responsible for the recent attacks.
This is not the first time such insinuations have been made about the Jewish community.
Below is the German Reich’s official response to Kristallnacht.
The German government made an immediate pronouncement that “the Jews” themselves were to blame for the pogrom….