Sarah Sanders fights to defend Trump's lie about Democrats and Jews

Last Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters that Democrats "have become an anti-Jewish party. "During a speech delivered to Republican donors in his private club Mar-a-Lago that night, Trump would have gone even further and reportedly said" Democrats hate the Jewish people. "

It is true that the representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has aroused controversy with recent comments on Israel and the American Committee of Israeli Public Affairs (AIPAC), which some have interpreted as invoking anti-Semitic tropes, but the Democratic Party in his whole body made the fight against Semitism and other hate speech central to his ideology – especially since Republicans, including Trump, defended white nationalists and deployed anti-semitic whistles in their campaign messages.

Unsurprisingly, at his first press conference since late January, Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has been repeatedly challenged to defend what Trump had said on Friday. His efforts to achieve this have not only failed, but they have also given an indication of what the Democrats are waiting for from what promises to be a deadly campaign cycle for 2020.

Jon Karl of ABC began by asking Sanders to explain how it is not hypocritical that Trump uses Omar's comments as a political cudgel when he refuses to denounce the Steve King representative (R-IA), who retweeted shamelessly his so-called "Nazi sympathizers". met and associated representatives of far right European parties with Nazi links and defended anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on billionaire Jew and Democratic donor George Soros.

"The President – correct me if I'm wrong – did not condemn Steve King," Karl noted. "Even when he praised white supremacy."

Sanders had the impression to suggest that Trump denounced him privately, even though he did not do so publicly.

"I speak on behalf of the president on a number of topics," she said.

Shortly after, Sanders repeatedly refused to answer the direct question of NBC journalist Hallie Jackson, "yes or no – does the president really believe that Democrats hate Jews?

"I will not comment," Sanders replied.

"You did not say yes or no. Does he really believe that Democrats hate Jews? "Pursued Jackson.

But instead of answering, Sanders asked further questions about Trump's beliefs to the people he humiliated.

"I think it's a question you should ask the Democrats," she said.

Towards the end of the meeting, CNN's Jim Acosta asked Sanders if she would at least accept that Trump's overheated rhetoric is "somehow inferior to everyone else".

"Do you think the president thought of the 2020 campaign that he needed to lower the rhetoric?" Asked Acosta. "What about democrats, media, immigrants – or should we just consider hearing the president use the same language that we heard in 2016 and during the first two years of this administration? "

Sanders responded with a drastic escalation by resorting to a false argument of debate about Democrats and abortion.

"I think the real shame in all of this is that Democrats are perfectly capable of coming together and hearing about the fact that they are comfortable tearing babies out of the belly right now. of their mother, or kill a baby after birth, but they have a hard time condemning the type of comments of MP Omar, "she said, intentionally blurring the line between late abortions, a procedure suffered by a very small minority of women, often in very difficult circumstances, and the murder of a baby, who is an infanticide.

Sanders' overloaded comments about Democrats and Abortion was the second time in a week that she had used this lie as a distraction. Last Monday, she responded to Democrats' requests for documents from people and entities associated with Trump, accusing them of trying to hide their "radical agenda of … killing babies after birth."

In summary, Sanders attempted on Monday to justify Trump's baseless assertion that Democrats hated Jews with dodges, deviations, and lies. His comments indicate that even if Democratic presidential candidates spend next year discussing politics, Trump will try to demonize them as hateful murderers before the general election in 2020.

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