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Jewish Republican compared Trump ‘Haitians eating cats’ claim to ‘targeting Jews’, book says

An older man points and speaks angrily into a mic.
Donald Trump at the 10 September presidential debate with Kamala Harris, when he said that immigrants from Haiti were eating people’s pets. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

A Jewish Republican congressman whom Donald Trump appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council compared Trump and his running mate JD Vance’s extremist attacks on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, during last year’s presidential campaign to the “‘target[ing]’ of Jews”, a new book reports.

After Trump endured a difficult debate against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on 10 September – attracting widespread ridicule for his claim that Haitian migrants were eating people’s pets – the former president “was determined to campaign in Springfield”, the Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt writes.

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