Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump Says He’s the ‘Leading Crusader Against Anti-Semitism;’ ‘How About Don’t Have Dinner with Holocaust Deniers?’

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O’DONNELL: “The entire phony, utterly phony pretext for Donald Trump’s attempts to make himself the president of Harvard University is that Donald Trump is now the country’s leading crusader against anti-Semitism. In one of his first trips to Iowa as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump felt compelled to try to make it very clear to Iowa voters right away that he was not Jewish. Donald Trump assumed that if Iowa Republican voters thought that this New Yorker, this New York businessman, was Jewish, then he might have a big problem in Iowa. And so he’s the only presidential candidate in history who took pains to point out that he’s not Jewish. And, of course, it was Donald Trump who had one of the accountants at one of his casinos fired because Donald Trump believed that that accountant was not Jewish. Donald Trump said, then, 'The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.' We know Donald Trump is unperturbed by anti-Semitism enough that he is the only president in history who has happily dined with a Holocaust denier and never apologized for that. Donald Trump had an intimate dinner at home in Florida with a Holocaust denier, and now Donald Trump wants to tell us and everyone else how to stop anti-Semitism. How about don’t have dinner with Holocaust deniers? How about that? Donald Trump is the single worst investigator of anti-Semitism who has ever claimed to be investigating anti-Semitism.”