Former president and current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke against campus pro-Hamas protests, Iranian terrorism and Vice President Kamala Harris’s seemingly tolerance of both during an Aug. 15 speech at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
“The Jewish community and the State of Israel are in greater danger than at any time since the Holocaust,” Trump said on Thursday, introduced by Dr. Miriam Adelson. “At this very moment, the bloodthirsty Iranian regime is reportedly preparing a large-scale assault on Israeli territory.”
Iran favors Harris, according to Trump. “Iran is now trying to tilt the election in Kamala’s favor strongly,” he said. “Kamala Harris is the candidate of the forces who want to destroy Western civilization, but most particularly Israel and Jewish people.”
Trump said Harris “has long embraced the extremists in her party because she’s one of them. She’s an extremist.”
Recalling 15 years ago, Trump said that attacking Israel used to result in the end of a politician’s career. He said that “the most powerful lobby in this country by far was Israel and Jewish people.”
The former president asked, “today, it’s like what happened? What happened to Schumer? What happened to all these people? Schumer is like a Palestinian.”
Shifting to his opponent in the presidential race, Trump said that “the toxic poison of antisemitism now courses through the veins of the radical Democrat Party” and that “instead of expunging this hatred, Kamala Harris is pandering to it.”
He predicted that at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which starts on Monday, there will be “hundreds of thousands of people that are opposed to Israel.” He added that recent antisemitic protests were “the direct result of weakness, radicalism and cowardice of the Harris-Biden administration.”
