Doug Emhoff Calls Trump a ‘Known Antisemite’ as Biden Team Steps Up Attacks

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, known as former President Donald J. Trump “a known antisemite” in a video excused on Tuesday, a remarkable escalation of assaults by means of President Biden’s marketing campaign in opposition to Mr. Trump over his language about Jews.

Mr. Emhoff’s remarks got here in a day social media put up by means of the Biden marketing campaign with the anodyne name “Second Gentleman @DouglasEmhoff responds to Trump attacking Jewish Americans.”

“The last person I’m going to take advice from as a Jewish person is a known antisemite who’s had dinner with antisemites, who said there was ‘good people on both sides’ after Charlottesville,” Mr. Emhoff says within the video, next he it appears watches a weeks-old video of Mr. Trump proclaiming that Jews who vote for Mr. Biden “have to have their head examined.”

Mr. Emhoff provides for emphasis, “He’s the last person I’m going to take advice from.”

The Biden marketing campaign has been in search of to increase a information cycle that started this occasion when Mr. Trump posted, nearest upcoming took indisposed, a video on social media that incorporated old-time newspaper headlines pronouncing a victory by means of him in November would deliver a few “unified Reich.” Mr. Biden, in a video excused by means of his marketing campaign, accused Mr. Trump of the usage of “Hitler’s language.”

The Biden marketing campaign and its surrogates have prior to now condemned Mr. Trump for the usage of antisemitic language. Two weeks in the past, a Biden marketing campaign spokesman, Charles Lutvak, blasted Mr. Trump for using “patronizing antisemitic shtick” next the previous president stated Jews who voted for Mr. Biden “should be ashamed of themselves.”

Mr. Trump has lengthy flirted with antisemitic language and imagery, and proven aid for far-right backers who’re brazenly antisemitic.

In 2016, his marketing campaign posted and nearest deleted a picture of Hillary Clinton, nearest his general-election rival, with a lump of money and the phrases “most corrupt candidate ever” within a Big name of David. As soon as in place of work, he infamously declared that there have been “very fine people” on all sides of the 2017 rally involving neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. Days next pronouncing his 2024 marketing campaign, Mr. Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is among the nation’s maximum leading younger white supremacists.

But it’s Mr. Biden who has in recent years discovered himself in a political vise involving American Jews. His aid for Israel’s executive next the Oct. 7 assault by means of Hamas, which killed greater than 1,200 folk, has ended in fierce complaint from Arab and Muslim American citizens, progressives and alternative Democrats because the reported dying toll in Gaza has swelled to greater than 34,000 Palestinians. Extra not too long ago, he has been known as anti-Israel for pronouncing that he would relaxation the cargo of a few guns to the rustic.

In the meantime, American faculty campuses had been racked this spring with encampments and demonstrations in opposition to the battle in Gaza, and Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris had been dogged for months by means of protests over the battle. On Tuesday, as Ms. Harris told to union individuals at a Philadelphia conference heart, about 3 batch folk behind the development chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and held up indicators that stated “workers rise up” and “free Palestine.”

Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, did indirectly reply to Mr. Emhoff’s remarks within the Tuesday video. In lieu, he wanted to attach the protests in opposition to Israel’s battle in Gaza to Mr. Biden moment portray opposition to the battle as antisemitic.

“Joe Biden is responsible for all this antisemitic hate on campuses across the country,” Mr. Cheung stated. “Whereas there has been no bigger friend to Israel and the Jewish people than President Trump, and his strong record reflects that.”

Nicholas Nehamas contributed reporting from Philadelphia.