In new era, Jewish Republican group is loyal to Trump above all else

>At the first RJC meeting since Trump was inaugurated, one never had to look too far to find an organization being molded in Trump's image. Administration hands like Rep. Devin Nunes and communications aide Boris Epshteyn worked the Board of Directors, briefing the 50 most generous RJC donors behind closed doors on the White House's thinking.

>Industry titans like Wynn hunted for donations to Trump's RNC, even though Wynn hasn't even said whether he voted for him in November and isn't technically a member of the RJC ("Did Steve Wynn hit you up for some money yet?" one top fundraiser asked another on Saturday.)

>And perhaps most tellingly, top Jewish Republican donors showed little eagerness to blame Trump for occasionally crossing them, such as when he slow-walked acknowledging the anti-Semitism behind the Holocaust this month or the recent threats at Jewish community sites this week.

>"You get that with the package," said top GOP fundraiser Mel Sembler, who chalked up those controversies to mere political naïveté. "We've got a new president. We want him to win. We're here to support him."

>Some elements of the RJC, though, won't be subsumed by the Trump power structure — including its political deal-making. It unfolds over poker tournaments and Shabbat dinners here as donors ask for an audience and candidates ask for a dollar. Top Senate recruits paced the halls, handing out business cards to top GOP fundraisers and seeking out introductions to potential super PAC donors. Josh Mandel, the Ohio Senate candidate who is particularly close with Jewish Republican givers, hosted possible donors a few miles off the premises of the Venetian, and Jeff Bartos, a wealthy Pennsylvania realtor weighing a Senate challenge against Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, roamed the Venetian to network.
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>But down-ballot candidates, used to being hot commodities for a party out of power, are now fighting for attention with an administration that suddenly dominates the political oxygen breathed by Jewish Republicans. Their newfound allegiance reached a zenith on Friday evening, when Vice President Mike Pence delivered a steady, well-received address in a dim ballroom over Shabbat dinner.

>"Hatred and anti-Semitism have no place in America," Pence told the crowd, recalling his recent visit to the Missouri cemetery desecrated by vandalism. "If the world knows nothing else, the world will know this: America stands with Israel."

>Yet that kind reaction wasn't always a guarantee. Trump pursued a topsy-turvy courtship with RJC contributors that to this day elicits head-shakes from top supporters. He spent much of the campaign openly mocking big-money donors — including Adelson, who is almost always sycophantically flattered by presidential aspirants — and telling them that "I don't want your money" in a December 2015 speech to RJC leadership.

>All that however faded to mere political turbulence when Trump staked out a hawkish position on Israel that positioned him to the right of even most Republicans. That's elated at least one interested party: Adelson, who has dined at the White House during the opening weeks of the administration and earned a private audience with Pence on Friday evening before his remarks to the full ballroom.

>But Jewish GOP leaders have already witnessed at least two cultural flashpoints that Trump managed to ignite. At least some Republicans have criticized Trump for a series of cultural missteps, such as his lack of hurry to condemn a recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks and omitting any mention of the Jews in a statement issued on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which earned him a rare rebuke from the RJC.
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>"He is who he is," said former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, the new chair of the RJC Board of Trustees, when asked if Trump had more work to do on Jewish cultural issues. "We're not shy about speaking out and saying 'OK.' If there's something that we think isn't exactly the way we would want it to be, we'll articulate that."

>Both big-money and rank-and-file RJC members, in a series of interviews this weekend, evinced little concern about the miscues, dismissing them as oversights, especially given the number of high-ranking Jews in his family and the West Wing ("enough to make a minyan," one joked.)
And besides, on their signature issue, Israel — donor after donor said — Trump couldn't align with them better. That trumps all.

>"The idea that he didn't happen to say the right word, or the word that somebody was looking for," said Marc Goldman, an influential RJC donor from Florida, "it doesn't to me change anything about where he's coming from."

Busy draining that swamp, I see.

>>115064
Cause trump the dump believes he and they are "special" people. Their god only promises to be good to them (the promised people) but their god f's everyone else to hell to suffer for all eternity (their god only forgives them). Wish I could see them after they die and refuse a loving, caring god and instead chose hell.

>>115531
>best President for Israel ever
Thats saying a lot...since israel comes first for all american presidents

>>115531
His own daughter is one so that isn't very likely.

>In Israel, Lauding and Lamenting the Era of Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/middleeast/israel-trump-antisemitism.html