Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff called former President Trump a “known anti-Semite,” heaping criticism on the former president after sharing a video on social media referencing a “unified Reich.”
On a video posted Tuesday, Emhoff watches a clip of Trump saying, “If the Jewish people are going to vote for Joe Biden, they need to have their heads examined.”
“The last person I will take advice from as a Jew is a known anti-Semite, who dined with anti-Semites, who said there were good people on both sides after Charlottesville. He’s the last person I’ll take advice from,” the second gentleman said in response.
Biden’s campaign seized on Trump’s video, which featured hypothetical headlines about the 45th president’s potential victory in November, including one that referenced a “unified Reich.” He was excluded and the Trump campaign blamed it on a personnel error.
Biden’s re-election campaign on Tuesday also shared a video of the president reacting to the video.
“Is this on your official account? Wow,” Biden said. “A unified Reich? That is Hitler’s language, not America’s. He cares about maintaining power. I care about you.”
Vice President Harris also criticized the video during a speech on Tuesday.
The Trump campaign sought to distance itself from the video, which was not created by the campaign. It said that the employee who republished it did not see the word “reich”.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random online account and reposted by a junior staffer who clearly did not see the word while the president was in court,” campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. .
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