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Leave Jews Out of It

Trump erred by bringing Israel into his Twitter attack against the “squad.”
Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

President Donald Trump obviously has no boundaries, let alone any understanding of historical tropes, but he really should not have roped the Jewish state into his latest Twitter tirade against four Democratic congresswomen (or, as he put it in his , ). “When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said,” the leader of the free world. “I can tell you that

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