After choosing his team of foreign policy advisers, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is once again finding himself deep in it. One of his advisors, Joseph Schmitz, is being accused of anti-Semitic behavior. McClatchyDC reports:
Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago that he pushed out Jewish employees.
The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is a foreign policy neophyte, and that his campaign, at times, has offended Jews and other minorities.
Schmitz, who is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, denies all the allegations. But then, he is an adviser to Donald Trump, so of course he does.
In one complaint, Daniel Meyer, who is a senior official in the intelligence community, describes remarks by Schmitz in a complaint file.
“His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’ ” wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general’s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy.
Meyer, who declined to comment about the matter, cited in his complaint another former top Pentagon official, John Crane, as the source and witness to the remarks. Crane worked with Schmitz, who served as inspector general between April 2002 and September 2005.
In Meyer’s formal complaint, Schmitz apparently lectured Pentagon official John Crane about Holocaust concentration camp details, while downplaying the Holocaust and saying:
“the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews.”
Joseph Schmitz’s photo is seen below in this tweet.
Right when you think the Donald Trump and his campaign can’t get any worse, this.
By the way, Joseph Schmitz and Donald Trump, the Holocaust victims weren’t killed in the ovens. Their bodies where cremated in ovens until the Nazis switched to mass graves. While conducting your foreign advisory board meetings, perhaps read up on some world history. You’ll discover most of the Jewish Holocaust victims were shot, gassed, starved, burned alive, frozen alive, crushed alive, diseased, worked to death, beaten to death, and murdered while being used for human experimentation— without the use of anesthetics… You fucking fucks.
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