A defector from the Democratic Party, a defector to where, is another story.
If Donald Trump wants to win, he needs to dump Joseph Schmitz NOW!
This does not look good at all:
Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Joseph Schmitz
Allegations of antisemitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving.
Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago that he pushed out Jewish employees.
The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is a foreign policy neophyte, and that his campaign, at times, has offended Jews and other minorities.
Schmitz, who is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, says the allegations against him are lies. All three people who have cited the remarks, including one who testified under oath about them, have pending employment grievances with the federal government.
Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community, described Schmitz’s remarks in his complaint file.“His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’ ” wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general’s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy.
Meyer, who declined to comment about the matter, cited in his complaint another former top Pentagon official, John Crane, as the source and witness to the remarks. Crane worked with Schmitz, who served as inspector general between April 2002 and September 2005. – Source: Donald Trump foreign policy adviser accused of anti-Semitic remarks | McClatchy DC
Donald Trump had better dump this guy and I mean quick. Because as you all well know, there is an Unwritten rule in politics and it is best described like this:
Thou shalt not speak ill of the Jews, thou shalt not do anything to harm the Jews, and thou shalt not even mention the Jews.
Otherwise, Thou shalt not have a political career and thou shalt be destroyed by the political left and the political right.
If Donald Trump is even remotely wise at all when it comes to politics and running a presidential campaign, he will dismiss this guy, as his foreign policy advisor and put as much distance between his campaign and this man.
Otherwise, I’ll be sitting here sometime next year bemoaning the fact that Hillary Clinton is now president as well as most of the Republican Party and Grassroots conservatives.
Antisemitism; whether perceived or real, is considered the third rail in politics and it is not acceptable in general quarters any longer.
I just hope and pray that Donald Trump is smart enough to know this.
