As we have previously reported, the public relations stunt that was the "visit" to Israel (or as they have called it: Palestine) by Reps. Omar and Tlaib was largely a non-event in Israel. Back in the US, the two Muslim congresswomen stepped on their own message first with Tlaib's grandma gambit and then with their anti-Israel charade of a presser, token Jews in tow. In general, things did not seem to go well for the sisterhood of the traveling anti-Semites, until, that is, President Trump stepped into the fray.
When asked, on live TV, why so many American Jews still prefer to vote for the Democratic party even in the face of his administration's unprecedented support for Israel, Trump could have punted or simply said something about how Republicans needed to do a better job reaching out to traditionally Democratic Jewish voters. But then he wouldn't have been Trump, would he?
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