Gary D Cohn is director of Trump’s National Economic Council; Steven Mnuchin is Secretary of the Treasury; Jared Kushner is Trump’s son-in-law and Ivanka Trump is Trump’s daughter, who converted to Judiasm: not one of them has said anything in public about Trump’s bizarre rant in which he said that not all the Nazi marchers in Charlottesville were bad and some were “very fine people.”
Privately, many are said to be fuming at their president’s refusal to condemn marchers who had chanted “Jew will not replace us.” Publicly, they are reduced to silence, or meek, coded condemnations that do not explicitly mention Trump.
Jewish supporters of Mr. Trump outside the administration also were largely quiet on Wednesday. Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish megadonor from Las Vegas, who was an avid supporter of Mr. Trump’s campaign, did not issue a statement.Michael D. Cohen, the president’s longtime personal lawyer, who is Jewish, defended Mr. Trump in response to a reporter’s question on Wednesday.
“I know President Trump and his heart,” Mr. Cohen wrote. “He is a good man and doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. All morning I am receiving horrific comments about being anti-black, racist, etc. for supporting Trump. It’s just wrong!”
Jewish Trump Staff Silent on His Defense of Rally With Anti-Semitic Marchers
[Michael D Shear/NY Times]
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