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Who are the Jews in Trump’s inner circle?

Right-wing fascist media figures and megadonors have supplanted policy
wonks



By Jacob Kornbluh September 24, 2024

After his widely panned performance in the Sept. 10 presidential debate,
Trump has doubled down on wild conspiracies — like claiming Haitian
immigrants eat pets — and ramped up attacks on American Jews who vote for Democrats. It’s made even his allies wonder: Who’s encouraging these rants?

Trump’s inner circle has changed from his 2016 campaign and his presidency, when his Jewish daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner were central
to managing his message. A team of professionals, including Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn and Stephen Miller, worked with “Javanka” to draw up detailed
plans to govern. None of them are part of Trump’s team today.

Trump’s current crop of advisers serves more informally. On Israel and
Jewish outreach in particular, right-wing media figures and megadonors have supplanted policy wonks.

Here is a look at several of the Jewish influencers whispering to Trump:
Laura Loomer, the conspiracy theorist
Patrons at a California bar watch the Harris-Trump presidential debate. (Getty)
Patrons at a California bar watch the Harris-Trump presidential debate.
Photo by Getty Images

Trump allies blamed Loomer for Trump’s false and jaw-dropping claim during
his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating people’s cats and dogs. Loomer
had flown with Trump to the debate on his private plane, and then appeared with him the next day at a 9/11 memorial event in Lower Manhattan.

Loomer, 31, a self-described Islamaphobe, has leaned into her Jewishness to attack critics. During her first unsuccessful congressional run in 2020,
she faced backlash for featuring photos of concentration camp victims to attack incumbent Florida Rep. Lois Frankel, who is also Jewish. In 2018, Loomer chained herself to Twitter’s New York headquarters wearing a yellow star, resembling the ones Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust,
to protest her social media account ban.

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She also echoes Trump’s insults of Jews who vote for Democrats. “It’s
either a genetic malfunction or a mental illness,” Loomer said in April on
The John Fredericks Show, a popular right-wing radio broadcast. “The Jewish people have a record of making poor decisions for themselves.” She has also called Jewish Democrats “kapo Jews.”

Trump has maintained that Loomer is just a supporter who “speaks very positively of the campaign.”
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s warm-up guy
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin at the 2024 Republican National Convention July 17. Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

Zeldin, 44, a former congressman from New York, has emerged as a vocal
Trump surrogate and critic of anti-Israel sentiment in the Democratic
Party. Warming up the crowd at a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, Zeldin accused Gov. Josh Shapiro of “trying to un-Jewish himself”
to become Harris’ vice presidential pick. A Shapiro spokesperson called the comments “disgusting.”

Trump and Republicans are leaning on Zeldin in New York, where the former gubernatorial candidate garnered significant Jewish support in 2022, and
lost to Gov. Kathy Hochul by less than 7 percentage points by focusing on voters’ worries about the economy and crime.

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Zeldin is the chair of the Leadership America Needs PAC, a pro-GOP
fundraising organization. He is trying to spread the idea that Hamas’ Oct.
7 attack on Israel and subsequent pro-Palestinian protests across the U.S. have led American Jews to “start being more open-minded than ever to voting Republican.” Jewish Americans historically have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats.

Trump has called Zeldin “a big part of our campaign.” At a campaign rally
in Uniondale, New York, last week, Trump said to a cheering crowd: “I want
to bring him to Washington with us. He’s a great lawyer.”
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s golf buddy
Then-President Donald Trump watches his friend Steve Witkoff, who’s son
died of a prescription drug overdose, speak at the White House Opioid
Summit in March 2018. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Witkoff, 67, was by Trump’s side when a would-be assassin targeted the
former president during a round of golf in Miami before the Secret Service spotted him.

The son of a manufacturer of women’s coats, Witkoff became friends with
Trump at a New York City deli in 1986 after they had worked together on a business deal. Since then, he’s become a confident, golfing buddy and contributor to Trump’s campaigns. Witcoff offered a very personal
endorsement of Trump during the Republican National Convention in July, describing him as a “kind and compassionate” person who helped him cope
after his son’s death from an opioid overdose.

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Since Oct. 7, Witkoff has served as a backchannel to the Jewish business community, particularly after President Joe Biden halted the shipment of 2,000-pound weapons to Israel. “It was a notable shift,” Witkoff told The Bulwark in May. “I personally received and helped secure large Jewish
donors over the last two weeks. And I’m not talking four-figure donations.
I’m talking six-figure and seven-figure donations.”
Miriam Adelson, a top donor who makes the Israel case for Trump
Miriam Adelson Donald Trump Jewish voters
Former President Donald Trump embraces Miriam Adelson Aug. 15. Photo by
Adam Gray/Getty Images

Adelson, 78, the widow of casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, makes the case that Trump is her native country’s best hope. After
committing over $100 million through an independent super PAC to Trump’s campaign, the Israeli-born physician has made several joint appearances
with him.

Last week, she stood by Trump as he made his most controversial comment to date about Jewish Americans. After she introduced Trump at back-to-back
Jewish events, Trump said they would bear the blame if he loses the
election.

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Trump’s campaign

Trump that evening praised Adelson as a “great lady” and close friend, and noted that she had served as a “calming influence” on her late husband, who with her had pushed Trump to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognize
the Golan Heights as part of Israel and withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal. Adelson told the largely Jewish audience that Jews who care about Israel have a “sacred duty” to support Trump “in gratitude for everything he has done and trust in everything he will yet do.”

On her list of demands from a second Trump presidency: support for Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank. Trump may not be willing to fulfill
all her wishes. At the first presidential debate in June, he declined to
say whether he favors the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
“I’d have to see,” he said.
Boris Epshteyn, Trump’s attorney and courtroom companion
Boris Epshteyn, advisor to former President Donald Trump, on May 20. Photo
by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Epshteyn, 42, is one of Trump’s closest advisors, who has had a direct line
to the former president since 2016. Epshteyn, a Russian immigrant who once managed TV surrogates for Trump, was responsible for his 2017 Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that omitted Jews.

During the 2020 election, Epshteyn served as Trump’s informal Jewish
liaison, chastising “radical hateful Democrats.” He pleaded not guilty to
nine felony charges in an Arizona fake elector case, with the trial
scheduled for January 2026. He sat at Trump’s side during his hush money
trial in New York. In this year’s campaign, he serves as counsel and a
senior adviser to Trump and the campaign.
More Jewish allies

Other Jews in Trump’s circle who publicly defend the president and attack Jewish Democrats include former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, conservative radio host Mark Levin, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz,
and Matt Brooks, chief executive of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Yehuda Kaploun, a Chabad-affiliated rabbi from Miami, has grown close to
Trump in recent years. Kaploun organized Trump’s event on combating antisemitism last week and served as the emcee.
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Who are the Jews in Trump’s inner circle?

Right-wing fascist media figures and megadonors have supplanted policy
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More TDS. What will you do after Jan 20, 2029?
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Who are the Jews in Trump's inner circle?

Right-wing fascist media figures and megadonors have supplanted policy >>wonks

More TDS. What will you do after Jan 20, 2029?

Tranny Derangement Syndrome? Everybody loves Trump so it's not about him.

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