Progressive strategist Igor Volsky and former Trump campaign data strategist Matt Braynard clashed Thursday over charges of anti-Semitism surrounding Eric Trump, who said Watergate journalist Bob Woodward made “three extra shekels” with his book attacking the administration.
“It’s an ancient biblical term, ‘shekel,'” Braynard, who’s executive director of Look Ahead America, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on “Rising.”
“It does not belong to Israel, and it predates that state,” Braynard said, adding that Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are Jewish. “His father is by far the most pro-Jew, pro-Israel president in history, and Woodward isn’t a Jew.”
“As someone who had to flee anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, who experienced anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, who still experiences ant-Semitism every time I do certain TV networks, I know what anti-Semitism sounds like, and this is what it sounds like,” Volsky, executive director of Guns Down America, said.
The term “shekels” has been widely used by white nationalists to describe money they say has been tainted by Jewish influence.
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