Donald Trump’s campaign is no stranger to anti-Semitic allegations.
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According to a complaint by Daniel Meyer, who also served in the Pentagon inspector general’s office, Schmitz, who now serves as one of five foreign policy advisors for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, boasted about firing Jews and downplayed the Holocaust during his service as inspector general for the US Department of Defense during George W. Bush’s Administration.
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In the complaint, Daniel Meyer, a senior officer, pointed out a conversation Schmitz had with former top Pentagon official, John Crane, where the now-Trump adviser downplayed the severity of the Holocaust.
“In his final days, he allegedly lectured Mr. Crane on the details of concentration camps and how the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews”, wrote Meyer.
His father, former Republican Congressman John Schmitz of California, was called out in 1981 for similar bigotry involving a press release where he referred to those in attendance at an abortion hearing as “a sea of hard, Jewish and (arguably) female faces”.
Morganroth’s letter echoes allegations Schmitz made anti-Semitic comments, citing a “sworn statement” from an unnamed source knowledgeable of the Tenenbaum case. “Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore”.
He specifically argued the claims were “preposterously false and defamatory because, among other reason (s), I am quite proud of the Jewish heritage of my wife of 38 years”. His defense is that his wife is Jewish, although he later clarified she was not a practicing Jew and only “ethnically Jewish”, since her maternal grandmother was Jewish. He was named as an adviser to Trump’s campaign in March.
Schmitz told McClatchy that the allegations were “completely false and defamatory”.
In the course of McClatchyDC’s investigation, Meyer and Crane refused to comment on the substance of the complaint.
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The claims against Schmitz are also being used as proof by former Army engineer David Tenenbaum that Pentagon officials fostered an anti-Semitic atmosphere that led to harassment against him.
