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When asked on Tuesday about the recent wave of anti-Semitic threats and property destruction, President Donald Trump allegedly said that “sometimes it’s the reverse.” The remark was made to a gathering of state attorneys general, according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. “He just said, ‘Sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people—or to make others—look bad,’ and he used the word ‘reverse’ I would say two or three times in his comments,” Shapiro said. “He did say at the top that it was reprehensible.” He added that the remarks “didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.”
Daily Beast: Penn. AG: Trump Said Anti-Semitic Attacks Are Sometimes ‘Reverse’
Full ADL remarks:
The Anti-Defamation League also questioned Trump’s reported remarks.
"We are astonished by what the President reportedly said. It is incumbent upon the White House to immediately clarify these remarks. In light of the ongoing attacks on the Jewish community, it is also incumbent upon the President to lay out in his speech tonight his plans for what the federal government will do to address this rash of anti-Semitic incidents,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, said in a statement.
Buss Feed: Trump Says "Sometimes It's The Reverse," When Asked About Anti-Semitic Threats And Attacks
Update I: From the Washington Post:
President Trump seemed to suggest Tuesday that the recent bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish community centers and cemeteries across the country might be false flags, according to a Democratic attorney general who met with him. And Trump's comments came the same day that one of his top advisers suggested the culprits could even be Democrats.
It wouldn't be the first time Trump went down this road.
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This isn't really the first time Trump or his advisers have flirted with this idea. It may have passed without much notice, but at Trump's press conference two weeks ago, a reporter prefaced his question by saying such anti-Semitic things were being done "by supporters in your name."
Trump cut off the reporter, SiriusXM's Jared Rizzi, to take issue with that characterization:
“And some of it — can I be honest with you? And this has to do with racism and horrible things that are put up. Some of it written by our opponents. You do know that. Do you understand that? You don't think anybody would do a thing like that. Some of the signs you'll see are not put up by the people that love or like Donald Trump, they're put up by the other side, and you think it's like playing it straight?
No. But you have some of those signs and some of that anger is caused by the other side. They'll do signs, and they'll do drawings that are inappropriate. It won't be my people. It will be the people on the other side to anger people like you. Okay.”
The comments were oblique, but it seems clear Trump was referring to false flags.
WaPo: Trump is flirting with the idea that anti-Semitic incidents are false flags — again