or jewish americans. that here in lieuvilouisvillelouisvi where the president is going to visit. it is a non-partisan organization, they have their own slate and including suicide interventions as well as all services for veterans. we talked to some of them of their ongoing convention, before the president s visit here. they have concerns of a lot of things from pocketbook issues to things of suicide preventions and general economy and some support of the president, many of course and this is not a political organization but many supportive of the president and interested in seeing him speak today. so the president spoke for nearly 40 minutes and he had all kinds of issues. you had to go through it line by
the president just within the last hour defending his comments about jewish americans despite the backlash that s emerged since yesterday. many leading jewish organizations saying the president used an anti-semitic trope while connecting americans to two frequent targets of his. where is the democratic party gone? where have they gone where they re defending these two people over the state of israel? and i think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. so then today the president defended that comment after
we ll have to keep the pressure ongoing into this next year and see what we can accomplish forward. when the president says we already have strong background checks. what should americans understand about that? how strong are our background chec checks? we have a good starting point. we have a background check law and phase which requires background checks when you buy guns from a federally licensed dealer. that s what people who can t pass background checks do. there are research done showing 80% of guns used in crimes required through means not requiring background checks. it is not easy to avoid it. that s the whole problem. we need to fill what is not even a loophole, it is a gaping hole in our ground checks system where it is just simply too easy for people who should not have guns to get them. we have a starting point. that needs to be completely
respect and support of jewish americans. he cares about one thing, and that is furthering a nationalist, racist agenda and he will slam anyone and anything, he will invoke homoph trope that s necessary in order to show off to his base, look how tough i am, look how bad the other people are. and so he uses jews instrumentally. he uses them as a prop, whether it s to attack the democratic party or whether it s to we ve lost jennifer for a minute. i want to play what the ceo of the anti-defamation league had to say and there are a lot of jewish organizations that came out immediately, put out statements condemning what the president had to say. let s listen. the idea that we re talking about the president of the united states using an anti-semitic trope, sitting in the oval office is absolutely
mind-boggling. jews aren t a political football. we shouldn t be used as if we were a tool in a partisan debate. we re not amonolith. and the loyalty we have as americans is no different than any other lottery of any other american. and i m tired of having to deal with this kind of bigotry. what is the danger here of this? we are six weeks away from the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack against jews on american soil, 11 holy jews were murdered, and the murderer was quoting things that president trump had said, that the president of the united states has spread and now we see almost to the day, the anniversary, the