JEWISH WORLD

By CAROLINE GLICK T he set-up at the Presidential debate Tuesday night was so predictable that it hurt to watch. Moderator Chris Wallace made no effort to hide where he was going. He noted that President Donald Trump had repeatedly demanded that his opponent, Democratic nom- inee and former vice president Joe Biden condemn Antifa, the violent leftist group behind much of the ongoing destruction of America’s cities. Wallace failed to note that Biden refused to condemn Antifa and instead claimed, crazily that the organization is “an idea” not a group. Wallace then asked Trump “to condemn white supremacists and militia groups, and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities.” “Sure, I’m willing to do that,” Trump replied. He then added, “Almost everything I see is from the left wing, not the right wing.” T rump was right, of course. The rioting, looting, arson; the attacks on police, on business own- ers and on citizens sitting in their homes from Los Angeles to Kenosha to Washington, DC is the provenance of Antifa, BlackLivesMatter and related left- wing groups. Then, going back to Wallace’s question, Trump added, “I’m will- ing to do anything. I want to see peace.” That didn’t satisfy Wallace, (or Biden, who were tag-teaming the issue). The two demanded that Trump condemn. Trump asked who specifically they wanted him to condemn. Wallace said, “White supremacists and militias.” Biden —who wouldn’t condemn the leftist terrorists laying waste to America’s urban centers — said, “Proud Boys.” So Trump, trying to resonate Wallace’s request that he tell them to “stand down,” said, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” And the progressive media and Jewish progressive activists clapped their hands in glee. Here was the definitive proof that Trump is a white supremacist. The Washington Post , The New York Times, television commenta- tors all said his misstatement – “standby” instead of “stand down” — was proof positive that Trump was signaling to his Nazi guard that he wants them to take to the streets. The Jewish Democratic Council of America, which had just launched a commercial comparing Trump to Hitler pounced on his “standby” gaffe as proof they were right and Trump is the gravest danger to American Jews. No one mentioned that Trump had condemned white supremacists twice in the same exchange or that Biden wouldn’t condemn the leftist rioters who — in addition to burn- ing stores — have vandalized sever- al synagogues since May, and reject the Jewish state’s right to exist. Jewish progressives and Democrats have been playing this trick since the 2016 elections. In 2016, Trump was asked to disavow the endorsement he received from David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grandmaster and he did, repeatedly. But in one satellite interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, where Trump was having trouble hearing the questions, Trump gave a diffident response to the question. And presto — Tapper, leftist Jewish activists and the Democrat party have used his cagey response as proof positive that Trump is a secret member of the KKK. The fact that he denounced Duke the day before the interview to a CNN reporter, denounced him again after his inter- view with Tapper and multiple times in the days and weeks and months and years that followed, was of no matter. The same thing happened after the Charlottesville riots in August 2017 which pitted goons from Understanding Smear Campaigns Democrats and the politics of projection continued on page 22 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 16-22, 2020 19 The Left’s anti-Semitism means its hysterical claim that Trump loves Nazis is nothing more than a projection. ANALYSIS President Trump expressing his views on the group known as Proud Boys, a moment that will be taken out of context and replayed again and again by progressive media as a sign of immorality.