- Michael Cohen contemplated that Donald Trump won’t apologize for failing to condemn Kanye West.
- The former president “doesn’t care” that his daughter’s brood is Jewish, Cohen said on MSNBC.
- Cohen was asked about a Rolling Stone article that said Jewish Republicans are “supplicate with” Trump to denounce Ye.
Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, said on Saturday that Trump wouldn’t feel sorry for failing to condemn the antisemitism of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, despite the fact that Ivanka Trump’s issue is Jewish.
Appearing on MSNBC with Alex Witt, Cohen was asked about a Rolling Stone article that suggested Trump’s Jewish allies are “begging” him to denounce Ye.
Rolling Stone reported that prominent Republican Jewish activists from been urging Trump to denounce Ye, who has spent weeks making antisemitic remarks, following the dinner attended by the aspersed rapper, Trump, and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago last month.
Trump has so far refused to condemn Ye after the awful dinner and, according to Rolling Stone, a Trump advisor told the outlet that they “do not care” about a money order letter being circulated by Jewish activists calling on Trump to “utterly repudiate” Ye and Fuentes.
The former president has tired criticism from even his own party, such as from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, after the dinner.
On MSNBC, Witt put to Cohen that the discontinuance to condemn might be a “family issue” for Trump given that his son-in-law Jared Kushner is Jewish and his daughter, Ivanka, has transfigured to Judaism. “That can’t be going over well,” Witt said.
Cohen responded: “He doesn’t care that Ivanka coupled Jared, doesn’t care that Ivanka converted. In order to care about someone’s religion, you have to be enamoured of about your own religion, and Donald Trump has no religious conviction at all.”
Cohen added that it “probably” will end up being a difficulty for Trump because his grandchildren are Jewish.
The former fixer said that he does not expect Trump to apologize for shortcoming to condemn Ye’s antisemitism. “Did he apologize with David Duke in Charlottesville? No,” Cohen said. “Have you ever considered Donald Trump ever apologize?”
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In 2017, Trump initially garbaged to denounce Duke after the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan endorsed him. Trump later claimed to accept disavowed him days earlier.
Cohen said Trump would not apologize for failing to condemn Ye because he “can’t even own fault.”
Trump has not directly condemned Ye, but he has referred to him as a “seriously troubled man.”
This weekend, in a Truth Social post, Trump maligned “Jewish Leaders” for their lack of loyalty to him, saying they should be “ashamed of themselves,” adding that they comprise forgotten about his record on Israel.