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‘I WILL THROW THEM OUT’: TRUMP TELLS JEWISH DONORS HE’LL DEPORT
PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS  
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Rachel Fink
May 28, 2024
Haaretz
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_ In a closed meeting with Jewish donors, Trump promises swift action
against student protesters if elected, while affirming Israel's right
to conduct its 'war on terror' in contradiction to previous statements
calling to end the war. _

Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court for
closing arguments in his criminal hush money trial in New York, on
Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Andrew Kelly/Pool Photo via AP),

 

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently told a group
of Jewish donors that he will deport pro-Palestinian campus
protestors, according to a new Washington Post report.

On May 14, Trump held a private round-table event with supporters who
he referred to as "98% of his Jewish friends," where he reportedly
told them, "One thing I do is, any student that protests, I
will throw them out
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the country."

"You know, there are a lot of foreign students," the second term
presidential hopeful went on to say. "As soon as they hear that,
they're going to behave." According to the report, Trump also called
the demonstrators part of a "radical revolution" that he vowed to
defeat and praised the New York Police Department for clearing out
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University's anti-Israel encampment before encouraging other cities to
follow suit.

"Well, if you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if
you get me reelected, we're going to set that movement back 25 or 30
years," he said, according to event participants, who spoke to the
Post on the condition of anonymity.

Trump then pivoted to talking about the current war in Gaza
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telling the group of wealthy donors that he believes Israel has a
right to continue what he called "its war on terror."

"When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Israel will once
again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will
be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end," Karoline Leavitt, the
campaign's national press secretary, wrote in an email to the
Washington Post but declined to answer any of the newspaper's specific
questions.
 
Pro- Palestinian students and protesters sit at an encampment at
Columbia University in April.  (Credit: Marco Postigo Storel,AP /
Haaretz)
Trump's comments at the May 14 event echo some of the comments he made
last month in an interview for Times Magazine, in which he cast his
doubts on the feasibility of a two-state solution
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vowed to protect Israel were it to get into a war with Iran. "I have
been very loyal to Israel, more loyal than any other president," Trump
stated in the interview. "I've done more for Israel than any other
president. Yeah, I will protect Israel."

Taken altogether, this most recent round of messaging from the Trump
campaign is somewhat inconsistent with previous statements
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presidential incumbent has made regarding the Israel-Palestinian
conflict.

In a March interview with the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, Trump
took a more critical stance, saying, "You have to finish up your war.
To finish it up. You gotta get it done." Then in April, he told
conservative talk show radio host Hugh Hewitt that he thought the war
was bad for Israel's image and that it was "absolutely losing the PR
war."

One name that was noticeably absent from Trump's remarks at the
fundraiser was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to
John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser and frequent
critic of his former boss, there is no love lost between the two men,
dating back to Trump's time in the White House when he did not feel
Netanyahu gave him enough credit for all he did for Israel, a list of
which Trump often brings up in interviews and public appearances.

"He doesn't like Netanyahu…" Bolten told the Post. "It's because
Bibi is one of the premier democratic politicians in the world in
terms of getting publicity about himself and Trump resents that."

"Trump fundamentally sees Netanyahu as getting credit for things Trump
thinks he ought to get credit for," Bolten added.

Trump, who has not spoken directly to Netanyahu in years, further
distanced himself from the prime minister in 2020 after he
acknowledged Biden's presidential victory in an election that Trump
claimed had been stolen from him. According to the Washington Post
report, some influential Republican donors, among them mega donor
Miriam Adelson, have pressed Trump to extend his publicly expressed
support for Israel to the country's embattled leader as well.

According to those who were present at the event, Trump repeatedly
expressed frustration that Jewish Americans did not vote for him as
much as he believes they should. "How can a Jewish person vote for a
Democrat, and Biden in particular," he reportedly asked the group.
"But forget Biden. They always let you down," he said, referring to
Democrats.

It's a comment Trump has made before and one that has triggered
backlash from Jewish Americans who have labeled his statements
regarding Jewish loyalty as antisemitic rhetoric, something Trump
indirectly addressed at the event when he told the audience that he
had studied Jewish history and had thoughts about this moment in U.S.
history.

"And you know, you go back through history, this is like just before
the Holocaust. I swear. If you look, it's the same thing," Trump said.
"You had a weak president or head of the country. And it just built
and built. And then, all of a sudden, you ended up with Hitler. You
ended up with a problem like nobody knew."

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