‘Pretty Offensive’: Jake Tapper Slams Trump For Saying Jewish Americans Voting For Biden Needed To Have Their ‘Head Examined’
CNN’s Jake Tapper was affronted by one of Donald Trump’s latest video soliloquies in which the former president implied that Jewish Americans who vote for Joe Biden are out of their minds.
Trump’s rant, posted to Truth Social Friday morning, came just days after Biden told CNN that he would withhold sending additional “offensive” munitions to Israel if they were to attack Rafah. The southern Gazan city is believed to be a Hamas stronghold, and is also where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering from the war. Trump said, in part:
The fact is that Crooked Joe hates Israel and he hates the Jewish people. There’s no question about that.
And if Jewish people are going to vote for Joe Biden, they have to have their head examined. He’s a disaster for Israel.
The problem is that he hates the Palestinians also, and even more so, and he just doesn’t know what to do. He’s a confused man. He can’t put two sentences together. He doesn’t have a clue. He doesn’t know where he is.
He doesn’t know he’s alive and he’s our president. We have to end it. November 5th. We’re going to end it.
Tapper said, “Let me just say, this idea, the Jewish people vote for Joe Biden, ‘they’re going to have to have their heads examined.’ Jews vote for Democrats roughly 75, 80%. To say that 75 or 80% of the Jewish people ‘need to get their heads examined’ is pretty offensive, empirically.”
Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director under Biden said, “Well, look. Surprise, surprise, Donald Trump goes to hateful, offensive language and talking about an issue that is incredibly emotional and passionate and complicated for people.” She continued:
So, you know, to me, that right there is an indicator of what a flawed messenger Donald Trump is, period. But going back to the politics on this, for Biden, I mean, look, I think what Joe Biden is doing is putting action to words. I mean, we know that President Biden and his team have been working directly with Israeli leadership for the last few months, trying to push them to a more tactical plan in Rafah, trying to limit civilian deaths. They’ve been very clear. We’ve seen a lot of reporting that they’ve been very clear and very direct. You know, President Biden has been direct with Netanyahu. This was going to be where he was going to need to be publicly if they did not adjust course. So, I think what Joe Biden is doing is showing that the words of an American president matter, and then the action you put behind it matters. Does not mean he’s walking away from supporting Israel.
Biden said he would continue to help Israel with “defensive” arms to protect the country from another Hamas strike.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
