I asked about Trump’s penchant for fabulism—some would say lying—like when he said there were some people who held a moment of silence for the cop killer in Dallas. Metaxas was blasé.
“You have to see it at least partially as shtick,” he said. “He doesn’t communicate the way a standard politician communicates. It is kind of a New York shtick. And the rest is sloppiness. But that is different from a brazen lie. There is a distinction.”
And finally I got to the Jewish question. I asked what Metaxas would say to Jews, like me, who worry about the mob mentality at Trump’s rallies? Or the online anti-Semitism of many of his followers? Or the tweet from Trump’s campaign of Clinton against the star of David, and a background of dollars? Metaxas said I was simply misunderstanding.
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