Former President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in a previous meeting (Reuters)

An opinion columnist in the United States launched a violent attack on former US President Donald Trump, because of his praise of those who attacked Congress in January 2021, and his attacks on immigrants, and on American Jews who vote for the Democratic Party.

Trump will most likely win the Republican Party's nomination to run in the US presidential elections scheduled for next November.

It has become almost certain that the presidential elections scheduled for next November 5 will be a repeat of the 2020 race in which Biden defeated his predecessor, Trump. This is the first time in 70 years that a second confrontation has occurred in the US presidential elections.

In his article in the Washington Post, writer Dana Milbank criticized Trump's recent statements, one of which stated that any Jew who votes for the Democratic Party is a hater of his religion.

According to the article, Trump underestimated the millions of American Jews who do not support his “fellow, ambitious autocrat,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is very unpopular.

Milbank said that Netanyahu is prolonging the war in the Gaza Strip because he knows that once the war ends, he will likely not be elected to power again, and he may be held accountable for the failure of his government that led to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) attack on Israel on October 7. Last October.

Crazy statements

Because American Jews - like many Israeli Jews - want to put an end to what the article considers “Netanyahu’s nightmare,” they hate their religion and detest Israel, according to Trump.

The author of the article chose some statements that Trump had recently made on some occasions, and described them as “crazy and dangerous.”

He said that based on his journalistic experience, the former president’s statements must be taken seriously, rejecting what his defenders say that they should not be taken literally, highlighting that Trump “will do, or at least try to do, what he says.”

Among those statements, he said that some immigrants “are not human,” but are in fact “animals” and “snakes.” Milbank pointed out that Trump apparently quoted these statements from the book "Mein Kampf" by Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler, in which he stated that immigrants "poison the blood of our country."

Trump had praised the demonstrators who were convicted of the attack on Congressional headquarters on January 6, 2021. He indicated that he supported a ban on abortions, and vowed to expel the Australian ambassador to the United States and Prince Harry, the son of the King of Britain.

But when he was asked in the interview conducted by British politician Nigel Farage on the GB channel whether he could negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he responded in the affirmative.

Bloodbath

Trump threatened in a crowd of his supporters in Ohio, saying: “If I am not elected, there will be a bloodbath affecting everyone, and this is the least that can happen. It will be a bloodbath that spreads throughout the country.”

In an interview with Fox News last week, Trump was asked about the reasons that prompted him to use words such as “vermin” and “blood poisoning” in his criticism of immigrants and opponents, despite his awareness that they would be compared to the speeches of Hitler and the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. He replied: “ Because our country is being poisoned."

The author of the article concluded that Trump - like Netanyahu - gives priority to his political interests over the interests of his country, noting that both men will make Israel a pariah state and put it on a rapid path towards its destruction for the sake of their personal gains.

Milbank confirmed that Trump threatened a bloodbath if he lost the presidential election, but "the bloodbath has already begun."

Source: Washington Post