Trump Good for Jews? Consider these worrying trends

They are both “good” or “bad” for the Jews, but in different ways.

Harris’s close alliance and past association with the Progressive (WOKE) wing of her party is very threatening since they are active anti-Semites.

Trump’s willingness to accept support from far night the anti-Semitic activists is probably less threatening, since the right-wing anti-Semites have minimal support whereas the left-wing anti-Semites are a large movement and probably control the Democratic Party.

MAGA’s isolationism is threatening to Israel (and the world) but is not based on anti-Semitism, whereas the Progressive position is that Israel (and Jews who support Israel, and all non-assimilated Jews are presumed to be zionists) is evil and should be destroyed (and they act on this belief by attacking Jews in America and around the world).

Very well articulated.

Well said !

from matzav (dot) com:

The New York Times has acknowledged that
statements made by former President Donald Trump
regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s support for
taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for
“illegal aliens” in custody were “essentially accurate.”

SOURCE: article titled: “NY Times Admits Trump Is Right:
Harris Backed Gender Surgeries for ‘Illegal Aliens’”
2024 September 14 www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said:

“At each and every turn, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden
have stood in Israel’s way, and they have turned
their back on Israel and the Jewish people.

For everyone who cares about the safety and existence
of the Jewish state, Kamala Harris’ disdain for Israel and
alignment with radical Far Left Hamas terrorist sympathizers
should instantly disqualify her from any office–let alone
President of the United States.

She [Kamala Harris] is a disgrace and must never
step foot in the Oval Office as Commander-in-chief…”

SOURCE: article titled: “Stefanik Slams Kamala,
Pserais Trump at pro-Israel Summit”
by Baruch Green September 22, 2024 www (dot) VINnews (dot) com

Caroline B. Glick said this on Jewish News Syndicate:

Since October 7, [2023] [Kamala] Harris has been
the most outspoken critic of Israel in the administration.

Just three weeks after the Hamas invasion, and in the midst
of the worst eruptions of antisemitism in the United States
in 90 years, Harris announced on X that the Biden administration
would develop “the first ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.”

She [Kamala Harris] then added, falsely,
“As the result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel
and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen
an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab
and Islamophobic incidents across America.”

Last week [Kamala] Harris raised concerns about her commitment
to Israel’s security when she met with the heads of the most viciously
anti-Israel and pro-Hamas group in the Democratic party
ahead of an election rally in Michigan.

Harris spoke with the heads of the so-called “Uncommitted National Movement,”
the group that convinced thousands of pro-Hamas voters in Michigan
to vote “uncommitted” rather than vote for Biden in the Michigan primaries.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the two leaders in
the conversation with Harris were Abbas Alawieh, former chief of staff
for Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), and Layla Elabed, sister of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).

Tlaib and Bush, of course are outspoken in their hatred for Israel
and for American Jews who support Israel. After losing her
Democratic primary in a landslide defeat on Aug. 6, Bush
committed herself to destroying the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
In her words, “AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down!”

Alawieh and Elabed told [Kamala] Harris that they want the
United States to impose an arms embargo on Israel.
Harris reportedly responded that she is “open” to a discussion
on the issue. While Harris’s aides have breathlessly insisted
that she never expressed any support for an arms embargo
and that she opposes an arms embargo, Harris supported
the administration’s decision to block shipments
of several critical weapons systems to Israel.

In late March she [Kamala Harris] threatened Israel with “
consequences,” if it defied the administration’s wishes
and began a ground operation in Rafah.

In mid-March, [Kamala] Harris stood at a historic Civil Rights
movement-era site in Selma, Alabama and
intimated that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza.

Referring to humanitarian conditions in the terror enclave
as a “catastrophe,” [Kamala] Harris said,
“What we’re seeing every day in Gaza is devastating.
We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed.
Women giving birth to malnourished babies with little to no medical care.
Children dying from malnutrition and dehydration.”

She [Kamala Harris] then wagged her finger and said,
“The Israeli government must do more to
significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses.”

None of [Kamala] Harris’s descriptions were accurate.
By giving voice to the slanders, the vice president
facilitated the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish riots that
were taking place on U.S. campuses, and provided support
to the International Court of Justice at the Hague
and its Kafkaesque trial of Israel for genocide.

[Kamala] Harris’s national security adviser Phil Gordon
has a long history of pro-Iran and pro-Hamas positions….

SOURCE: article titled: “Trump’s rhetoric vs. Harris’s policies”
by Caroline B. Glick 2024 August 11
www (dot) jns (dot) org Jewish News Syndicate

Its all about HIM

As the missiles were landing around EY this AM, Trump’s first thoughts (and posts on his Truth Social site) were how none of this would have happened if HE was President and how he will magically “end the Israeli war” on his first day of returning to office (just like he will end the war in Ukraine, stop all illegal immigration, put a man on Mars etc. all on his first day in office). Not a word of sympathy for the people of EY or even the families of those killed in the terrorist attack at the light-rail station in Tel Aviv. But lots of words about HIM and some sick jokes about Biden who had just ordered U.S. navy ships to intercept the incoming missiles.

WISCONSIN (VINnews) — Jewish activist Shabbos Kestenbaum,
a Harvard graduate who has filed a lawsuit against the university
over its antisemitism, will be speaking at the Republican National Convention.

In a tweet, Kestenbaum announced that he voted for Bernie Sanders
last election, however his views have changed because of
what his classmates were doing while Jews were being slaughtered.

The Convention’s website says that Shabbos is a “lifelong Democrat”
who will be voting for president [Donald] Trump for the first time.

SOURCE: article titled: “Shabbos Kestenbaum,
Formerly a Bernie Sanders Supporter,
to Speak at GOP Convention”
by Baruch Green 2024 July 15 VINnews (dot) com

Jonathan S. Tobin (editor-in-chief of Jewish News Syndicate) said:

“It was an open secret in Washington that even in an administration
that was staffed largely by Obama-era alumni, [Vice President Kamala] Harris
was the most openly sympathetic to the Palestinians
and the least inclined to stand with a Jewish state
that had suffered the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

From the start of the war that was launched by Hamas on Oct. 7 [2023],
she has been careful not to go too far in denouncing Israel’s effort
to defeat the terrorists in Gaza, but she [Kamala Harris]
has also repeatedly recycled Hamas propaganda about Palestinian casualties.

Though left-wing Jews are already mobilizing to loyally vouch for her,
her position is essentially one of moral equivalence
between Israel and the people who committed murder, rape,
kidnapping and wanton destruction on Oct. 7 [2023],
while supporting a genocidal terror group bent on Israel’s destruction.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Do Kamala Harris
and the Democrats have a Jewish problem?”
by Jonathan S. Tobin (editor-in-chief of Jewish News Syndicate)
2024 July 23, www (dot) JNS (dot) org

Square: If I post 10,000 times about how Hezbollah is bad, does that prove that Hamas is good? You’ve wasted your breath.

This article is also from www (dot) matzav (dot) com:

Shortly after the October 7 [2023] attack, [Vice President Kamala] Harris
expressed her support for pro-Hamas college students, stating,
“I do understand their concerns and I will never attempt to
stifle or silence young people from expressing their concerns.”

When Israel announced plans to target Hamas in Rafah,
[Vice President Kamala] Harris opposed the move, arguing on ABC
that it was not feasible and citing her knowledge from studying maps.

On October 17, when a protester accused the United States and
Israel of committing “genocide,” [Kamala] Harris responded,
“I appreciate you raising the subject and I appreciate your leadership.”

As a senator, [Kamala] Harris also showed her ambivalence
toward Israel by voting against federal anti-BDS legislation,
which passed overwhelmingly in 2019.

Political analysts suggest that a shift from [Joe] Biden to [Kamala] Harris
could alienate Jewish Democrats, many of whom prioritize Israel.

“Pro-Israel Democratic voters are going to hold their noses in many cases
and vote for Trump. Because Trump may be bad, but no Israel is worse,”
said Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran Democratic consultant.

“The pro-Israel Democratic community is shrinking and it will shrink further
with Kamala Harris because she’s been very clear about how she feels.

She has limited respect for the most important ally America has in
the Middle East and an ally that is now fighting a proxy war at
great cost against America’s greatest enemy, which is Iran,” Sheinkopf added.

SOURCE: article titled: “EXPOSED: Kamala Harris Has Long Line
of Anti-Israel Statements Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 Terrorist Attacks”
2024 July 27 www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Despite all this “worrying,” can anyone with a half brain really vote for Harris and expect it to be good for this country? It will just be four more years of Biden/Obama and a very leftist Democrat party. So no one is going to be perfect for the Jews and Trump has proved enough that he is in our corner while Biden/Harris waffle whichever way the wind blows

Mr. Daniel Greenfield said this:

“The idea that terrorists attack because they hate freedom,
however, is misguided,” Philip Gordon wrote in “Winning the Right War.”
“Even most of the Muslims who support terrorism and
trust Osama bin Laden favor elected government” and “personal liberty.”

[Philip] Gordon, [ex-President] Obama’s future Middle East coordinator,
explained in his book that Muslim terrorists weren’t “born evil” and
did not “hate our freedoms”, but rather feel “shame”
over the state of “a once great Islamic civilization”
surpassed by other cultures including “the local upstart, Israel.”

America was “creating conditions” that “generate” Islamic terrorism
by detaining Al Qaeda terrorists, failing to punish American soldiers
and “justifying any Israeli military action.” Gordon urged the White House
to assure Iran that we have “no intention of using military force
against Iran or fomenting internal dissent”
because “Iran’s concerns about such issues are legitimate.”

Published in 2007 by an imprint of The New York Times,
[Philip] Gordon’s book was a blueprint of the policies the
Obama administration would adopt, including blaming America and Israel,
appeasing Iran and Islamists and making Muslims feel better about themselves.
These are the building blocks of the policies that led us
to Oct. 7 [2023] and an Iranian war across the region.

Today, [Philip] Gordon is Kamala’s national security adviser,
and possible future secretary of state.

[Philip] Gordon’s hostility toward Israel and sympathy for
Islamic terrorists is a longstanding matter. Even before
joining the Biden administration, he had co-written an article
with Iran lobby figure Robert Malley, currently under FBI investigation
for mishandling classified documents, urging Biden to reverse
Trump’s possible recognition of Israel territory and
to cut political and economic support for Israel to punish it
for its diplomatic successes under the Trump administration.

Recently, [Philip] Gordon urged Israel to stop seeking victory
against Hamas and accept a hostage deal that would allow the
Islamic terrorist group to hang on in Gaza and free thousands of terrorists.

In his book, [Philip] Gordon claimed that
“though Hamas refuses to recognize Israel today,
it is not hard to imagine an eventual change in that position.”
And in 2014, he argued that a reconciliation deal
between the PLO and Hamas “isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

In 2016, Gordon, speaking on behalf of the Clinton campaign,
appeared at a conference of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC),
widely regarded as the Iran lobby, and promised that
Hillary Clinton would veto new sanctions on Iran.
He was described as assuring the Iran lobby of the
“potential for collaboration with Iran.”
The New York Times even appeared to
list him as a “tour guide” on its Iran trips.

And [Philip] Gordon is not the only terror booster on Kamala’s team.

Ilan Goldenberg, a key member of the Kerry team
who played vital roles in the Obama administration’s
campaigns against Israel and for Iran, serves as
her Middle East adviser, and would have
a more prominent role in any administration.

[Ilan] Goldenberg complained that the Trump administration
had taken Israel’s side during the Hamas border riots
that served as a prep for Oct. 7, objected that moving
the embassy to Jerusalem had not been packaged
with similar concessions to the terrorists and co-authored
a paper with Hady Amr, who acts as Biden’s point man to the terrorists.

The paper proposed that “the United States, UNSCO,
and Egypt should work quietly in concert, engaging with Israel,
the PA, Hamas” to secure a “long-term ceasefire”
between Israel and Hamas, with Israel accepting that
“Hamas would retain some of its military capabilities.”

At one session Goldenberg urged, “You used to have 25,000,
100,000 Gazans working inside Israel. That needs to happen again.
The Israelis know who these guys are.
They can start with a few thousand work permits.
And there’s a lot of support for that
in all of the Israeli communities around Gaza.”

Prior to Oct. 7 [2023], Gazans flooded Israel, scouted those
“Israeli communities around Gaza” and when Oct. 7 began,
came back with maps of the communities so that they knew
where the security teams were, which houses
had dogs and where the children could be found.

[Philip] Gordon and [Ilan] Goldenberg, who are set to play major
roles in a Harris administration, have expressed no regrets
or retractions of their past policies and positions.
Even as the Middle East burns due to Iranian terrorism,
all they have done is double down.

In a co-written op-ed headlined, “Relax, Israel — if your ally
is working with your enemy, it doesn’t make them friends.”
Goldenberg envisioned that “In the aftermath of a successful nuclear deal,
U.S. relations with Iran should shift from that of an adversary to that of a competitor.”

His position on Israel was rather different, with op-eds like
“Why Israel’s Settlement Construction Must Be Stopped”
and “How Israel Brought U.N. Resolution
on Itself With Irrational Settlement Push”.

Under a Secretary of State Phil Gordon, the Abraham Accords
and normalization with countries like Saudi Arabia, which
one of his op-eds described as an “Arabian fantasy,”
would be swept aside in a return of Obama’s non-stop
pressure campaign on Israel to create a terrorist state.

“How will it have peace if it is unwilling to delineate a border,
end the occupation, and allow for Palestinian sovereignty, security, and dignity?”
Gordon had said at a conference in Israel right after terror rockets began to fall.
“It cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely.
Doing so is not only wrong but a recipe for resentment and recurring instability.”

After the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas,
Gordon equated Israel and the terrorists, claimed that
both sides suffered from “racism,” told “both sides to
demonstrate reason and calm” and warned that
“calls for retribution and revenge have no place on either side.”
Finally he falsely contended that “neither side” was
“ready to make the difficult decisions required for an agreement.”

Goldenberg had similarly argued that “half the root causes
are Israeli actions, in terms of—especially just focusing on Gaza,
on the blockade. And the other half is Hamas’s choice
to use violence and arm itself in response.”

That false paradigm has been markedly present
in Kamala’s attacks on Israel after Oct 7 [2023].

Kamala’s relentless criticism of Israel’s self-defense is a preview of things to come.

Behind her escalating rhetoric are a group of anti-Israel figures
from the Obama administration. Goldenberg was one of the radicals
brought in by the Warren campaign and then injected
into the Biden administration. Gordon is a longtime State Department
anti-Israel figure from a faction whose fingerprints
are all over the policies that empowered Iran and set the region on fire.

What would Kamala’s foreign policy look like?
The presence of Gordon and Goldenberg as her close advisers
on the region shows that it would be the Obama administration on steroids.

SOURCE: article titled: “Kamala’s anti-Israel
advisers helped bring on Oct. 7”
by Daniel Greenfield 2024 July 29 www (dot) JNS (dot) org

This short article is from www (dot) matzav (dot) com:

Elon Musk attacked Kamala Harris as an “extinctionist” in a particularly sharp X post.

The billionaire was commenting on another post penned by
Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH),
in which he attacked Kamala Harris for saying that
the threat of climate change has played a part in many people’s
decisions to have kids — among a number of other major life decisions.

“It’s almost like these people don’t want young people
starting families or something. Really weird stuff,” Vance wrote.

[Elon] Musk took Vance’s criticism to another level, arguing that
[Kamala] Harris’ acknowledgement of so-called “climate anxiety”
among young people meant she was advocating
for the “de facto holocaust for all of humanity.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Elon Musk Calls Kamala Harris an ‘Extinctionist’ in X Post”
2024 July 29 www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Jeesh, why is he still going. Does he really think anyone is reading all of these?

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2321909/watch-kamala-harris-refuses-to-call-netanyahu-a-close-ally-in-jaw-dropping-60-minutes-moment.html

This article was written by Dr. Joseph Frager MD:

President Joe Biden is missed already. As bad as he was,
Vice President Kamala Harris is a hundred times worse.

One of her first official acts as nominee for president
was to make sure not to attend Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress,
even though she is the President of the Senate
and it is more than just customary for her to do so.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said,
“It is outrageous to me and inexcusable that …
Kamala Harris is boycotting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech.”

Would Harris have declined to attend Winston Churchill’s
speech to Congress on December 26, 1941?

Israel is America’s only real and reliable ally in the Middle East.
It was brutally and savagely attacked on October 7 [2023].

It has been and continues to be bombarded by missiles from Hezbollah.
Twelve children were just killed in their latest bombing.
Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of missiles,
drones and UAVs on April 13 [2024].

Israelis are deeply concerned that their very existence is at stake.
Britain felt the same way during World War II.
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address,
Biden visited Israel soon after Oct. 7 to lend support because
he was aware of the gravity of the situation. It was a war against evil.

Winston Churchill devoted most of his speech to Congress
to ultimate victory over the Axis powers.
He quipped about his American-born mother,
“I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American
and my mother British, instead of the other way round,
I might have got here on my own.
In that case, this would not have been
the first time you would have heard my voice.”

He went on to say, “We both of us have much to learn
in the cruel art of war. We have therefore,
without doubt, a time of tribulation before us.”

Churchill was warmly received on both sides of the aisle.
He understood war and its consequences.
No one tiptoed around the evil that the Axis powers
had unleashed. No one, including the “isolationists”
who opposed U.S. involvement in the war, boycotted the event.

Ironically, Netanyahu has addressed Congress four times
while Churchill did so only three times. Although Harris
might think that the situations are different, this is not an excuse.
Israel is facing a multi-front war and is preventing
that war from spreading to U.S. shores.

[Kamala] Harris has already encouraged campus protests
against Israel by stating that: “They are showing exactly
what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza.”

Her quick call for a ceasefire as early as March
only hardened the hearts of Hamas, prolonging the war.

[Kamala] Harris’s moral equivalence on the conflict
will only make a hostage deal even more difficult.

As one Israeli official said after Netanyahu and [Kamala] Harris met,
“When our enemies see the U.S. and Israel are aligned
it increases the chances for a hostage deal and decreases
the chances for a regional escalation. When there is such daylight
it pushes the deal further away and brings a regional escalation closer.”

Thus, Harris has only made the situation worse.

SOURCE: article titled: “Kamala Harris is no Joe Biden”
by Dr. Joseph Frager MD, 2024 July 28 www (dot) JNS (dot) org

Robert Spencer of Frontpage Magazine said:

The media isn’t going to tell you this. The Hamas-linked Council
on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as
“America’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization.”

In that guise, and as it has championed numerous far-left causes,
it has become a respected member of the leftist establishment,
with numerous ignorant and self-serving politicians lavishing
praise on this unsavory gang in hopes of gaining Muslim votes.

Among them has been, not surprisingly, Kamala Harris.

This has been known for years, but no one has cared.
Back in October 2020, the Washington Free Beacon reported that
“as California’s attorney general and then as U.S. senator,
[Kamala] Harris forged a relationship with the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), one of the nation’s top anti-Israel groups
and advocates for boycotts of the Jewish state.”

After the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023, this matters more than ever.

CAIR, the Free Beacon added, “advised [Kamala] Harris on
community issues during her time in California politics,
and she later offered the group her ‘gratitude and admiration’
in a 2018 personal letter to the group.”
Specifically, “Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s
Los Angeles office, praised Harris in 2015 for including
the group in an interfaith meeting with law enforcement officials.

[Kamala] Harris, he said, ‘exemplified leadership’ by
vowing to tackle Islamophobia at a time when
the state’s Jewish institutions were facing threats.”

That was bad enough, since “Islamophobia” is a propaganda
weapon designed to intimidate people that it is wrong —
somehow “bigoted” — to oppose jihad violence
and Sharia oppression of women.

Even worse, long before he praised Kamala Harris,
Hussam Ayloush has repeatedly refused to denounce
Hamas and Hizballah [Hezbollah] as terrorist groups.

In 2017, with Donald Trump in the White House,
Ayloush called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Yet the following year, [Kamala] Harris wrote to CAIR:
“Please accept my gratitude and admiration
for your tireless work to promote peace,
justice, and mutual understanding.”

Even that was not all. “As California’s top cop,” the Free Beacon noted,
“Harris partnered with local CAIR officials and relied on them
to advise her about community matters. In 2015, for instance,
[Kamala] Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event
following a deadly terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
In 2016, as Harris ran for the Senate, CAIR’s
political action committee donated $1,750 to boost her campaign.”

That may not be much in the larger scheme of things,
but imagine the outcry if Donald Trump had taken a small fraction
of that amount from a group linked to the Ku Klux Klan.

Harris’ ties to CAIR take on a new urgency now that she is
a presidential candidate, and now that this self-proclaimed
“civil rights organization” is more forthright
than it used to be about where it really stands:

CAIR’s cofounder and longtime executive director Nihad Awad
infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’
October 7 [2023] jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis.

In April 2024, Awad eulogized a Muslim Brotherhood cleric,
Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who had ties to al-Qaeda as well as Hamas:

“The Islamic nation has lost one of its biggest emblems and men
with the passing of Sheikh Alam and worker Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani
after he dedicated his life to the service of the Quran
and the manifestation of its miracles that never cease.
He remained tall and firm in the face of challenges, tribulations,
pressure, and rankings until he met the Almighty Allah.
Our condolences to his family, Yemen, and our nation.
We ask Allah, the Merciful, the Merciful and the Forgiving,
to have mercy on him, forgive him and reward him with the best of rewards.”

Al-Zindani was on the UN Security Council’s list of specially designated terrorists.

If Trump had similar ties to any of the groups that the leftist establishment
claims are made up of “right-wing extremists,” including a group that
opposes CAIR and jihad terror and got added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s
“hate group” list for doing so, the media outcry would be shrill and intense.

Trump would be hounded everywhere
until he disavowed the group and returned its donation.

No one, however, is asking Harris about CAIR.
That’s because Harris, CAIR, and the media are all part of the same leftist establishment.

Surely you don’t expect them to police themselves, do you?

Politicians can associate freely with groups that are on
the left’s approved list, and be secure in
the knowledge that there will be no accountability.

Responsibility to the American people?
Come on, man! This ain’t 1776 anymore!

SOURCE: article titled: “Kamala’s ties to a far-left,
Hamas-linked Islamic group” by Robert Spencer
of Frontpage Magazine, 2024 August 1,
found in: The Jewish Voice, www (dot) TJVnews (dot) com

“Donald Trump has a Jewish daughter”

And a Lebanese son in law whose father is a childhood friend of Hezbollah’s candidate for President of Lebanon. As the OP stated, Trump is making a big play for the Arab vote in Michigan.

Michael Goodwin of The New York Post said:

The grumbling that Kamala Harris is avoiding reporters like the plague
led to a headline on Fox News that demanded:
“Liberal media minions need to do their jobs.”

Ah, but they ARE doing their jobs. Their assignment, as they see it,
is to stop Donald Trump from becoming president, and no effort is being spared.

If they had another goal, they would be furious as [Kamala] Harris
ignores them and their questions. But meekly accepting
her cold shoulder is all part of a dishonest day’s work.

They will do whatever it takes to elect her.

All of which means Trump shouldn’t hold his breath waiting
for [Kamala] Harris to be exposed during a tough round of interviews.

He may be right, as he said Thursday, that “she can’t do a news conference.”
He said that during a long question-and-answer session he held to draw a contrast with her.

But he, too, misses the larger point: [Kamala] Harris could do an endless loop
of interviews and press conferences and it probably wouldn’t matter.

She will choose friendly outlets where Democrats with
press passes will throw her big juicy softballs [easy questions].
If she swings wildly and misses, they will declare it a home run [a great success].

If she dishes up one of her zany word salads, she will
be deemed a genius beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals.
And her annoying cackle will be proclaimed endearing.

FIXED ON THE PRIZE:

America is experiencing a remarkable series of events,
featuring the shooting of the Republican candidate
by a would-be assassin and the pressured removal
of the Democratic president from his re-election campaign,
yet the media hasn’t blinked.

They remain fixed on the prize of making certain
Trump doesn’t get back to the Oval Office.

The mission includes turning away from the attempt to assassinate him.
You don’t have to be a historian to marvel at how little interest there is
about the background and motivation of the 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Crooks.

Nor is there much detail about an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump
that, we recently learned, had been broken up by the FBI
just the day before the Pennsylvania shooting.

Crooks reportedly had three foreign email accounts
but we are assured by anonymous “official” sources
speaking to leftist outlets there is no connection between the two plots.

PBS, a reliable indicator of the radical mindset, put it this way:

“US officials acknowledged last month that a threat on
Donald Trump’s life from Iran prompted additional security
in the days before a Pennsylvania rally in which
Trump was injured by a gunman’s bullet.
That July 13 shooting, carried out by a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man,
was unrelated to the Iran threat . . . a law enforcement official said.”

So there was “additional security” in Pennsylvania,
but still Crooks was able to fire at Trump
from an open rooftop just 130 yards away?

This, of course, is the same Secret Service that dropped
its probe into a bag of cocaine found at the Biden White House
because it couldn’t find the perp in two weeks.
The Keystone Kops were more diligent.

If the assassination plots involved [President Joe] Biden or any Democrat,
the media would treat them as earth-shattering stories.

Every rumor, speculation and tidbit of information would be
blasted out in breathtaking fashion about a national security crisis.

UNFAIR PLAY:

Republicans would be lashed with harsh denunciations
about overheated political rhetoric and accused of sparking violence.

But when Democrats and the media repeatedly declare Trump
a threat to democracy and then he narrowly avoids death,
and when a foreign power also assigns an agent to kill him,
the page is quickly turned.

There is no outrage toward Iran, nor does the media express
any curiosity about why Iran wants to kill Trump but not Biden.

The reason is obvious, but to spell it out
would be to expose Biden’s appeasement policies.
Recall that Trump droned Iran’s terror chief and put tough sanctions
on the mullahs’ oil, while Biden lifted the sanctions and keeps trying
to bribe Iran to rejoin the failed nuclear pact that Trump scuttled.

Even after Iran loosed its terror proxies on Israel and the groups
killed three American service members in Jordan,
wounded others in Iraq and took Americans hostage in Israel,
Biden pulls his punches and demands Israel do the same.

Then came Friday’s reports that Iran is using fake news sites
and other online activity to interfere in the fall election.

Not until the third paragraph does the AP note that
“US officials have previously hinted that Iran
particularly opposes former President Donald Trump.”

A more honest way to write the same story would be
to say upfront that Iran wants to help elect [Kamala] Harris.
That’s how it would be written, if Iran was trying to help elect Trump.

Here’s another comparison: If JD Vance were accused of
“stolen valor” by his former military comrades, would
the media circle the wagons around him the way
they are protecting Tim Walz against the same charges?
The question answers itself.

Sadly, even tragically, there is nothing new in the media jihad
against Trump. It started in 2016 and hasn’t stopped.

The big outlets tried to drag Hillary Clinton over the finish line,
but couldn’t do it. So many newsrooms, so many tears.

In 2020, they were happy to let Biden hide in his basement.
They knew then he was in decline, but believed it better
to have a decrepit Democrat in the White House than the evil Trump.

During his tenure, Biden set a modern record for the fewest
press conferences and interviews. It should have been treated as a scandal,
but even as Biden ignored them, reporters ignored his cognitive decline.

DIFFERENT STANDARDS:

When the president scolded the press for mild criticism,
they remained loyal to his re-election.

He said publicly his son Hunter Biden did nothing wrong,
and they didn’t bother to note that it was improper for a president
to comment on a case pending before his Justice Department.

He let it be known he wanted Trump prosecuted and thrown in jail,
which should have been met with thunderous outrage, but instead, crickets.

Actually, it wasn’t crickets. There was a very loud applause
because that’s what the media wants, too.

They stuck with Biden until it was clear he would lose,
then flipped on a dime and led the charge to replace him.

They didn’t know who Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and
the megadonors would replace him with — and didn’t care.

Any Democrat who increased the odds of beating Trump would do.

To judge from reports about Harris’ “joyful” campaign,
many in the media are giddy that she is generating
so much enthusiasm and, according to polls, is now beating Trump.

That makes it extra delusional for anyone, including him,
to believe the press will jeopardize her chances
by holding the two candidates to the same standards.

If Trump is going to win, he’ll have to do it the way he did it in 2016:
despite the media.

SOURCE: article titled: “The liberal media will do anything
to get Kamala Harris elected – which includes not questioning her”
by Michael Goodwin 2024 August 10 www (dot) NYPost (dot) com

modern, note that all D- Presidents and VPs are “pro-Israel”, while being in a fight with duly elected Israeli PM – and his policies. I don’t think we have such relationship often with allies, such as European countries. They are basically saying – we are your friends when you do what we tell you to. This is, of course, better than outright hostility. Still, no wonder that every time they say – yes, Israel has a right to defend itself BUT … this encourages antisemites in their activities. As just reported, Trump simply called Bibi and said – congrats on your battle successes. There is a lot of value of having clarity that someone is on your side in the battle.