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If Donald Trump Loses, He Says to Blame Jewish People.

The former President truly cannot help himself.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readSep 20, 2024
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Obviously, things have been less than ideal for former President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign as of late. While of course he’s still in the race and has an excellent chance of winning, the confidence in that sentiment seems to slip with each passing day as he struggles to shift the momentum back in his direction.

The refusal to do another debate should tell us everything we need to know about his headspace and the thought process of his campaign, and the lack of confidence they have in his ability to keep a level head and have a better performance than he did in the last one.

Well, leave it to Trump to add more proof of concept with that idea, and make some bizarre, and frankly disturbing comments about the election and Jewish people in particular.

Chris Cameron and Michael Gold with The New York Times write:

“Former President Donald J. Trump, speaking on Thursday at a campaign event in Washington centered on denouncing antisemitism in America, said that “if I don’t win this election,” then “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss.”

Mr. Trump repeated that assertion at a second event, this one focused on Israeli Americans…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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