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Hey folks, Joyce here. Here's a recording of my latest cafe note, Donald Trump's blame game.

As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, Donald Trump wants to blame Jews if he loses the election this fall.

Last week, during an event designed to combat anti-Semitism,

Trump said Jewish voters would have a lot to do with it if he loses the election.

He complained that they preferred Vice President Kamala Harris to him.

Trump repeated the comments later that day.

The Jewish people, he said, would have a lot to do with a loss.

I know a lot of Jewish voters who would be happy to help deliver that result,

but Jews are no more a monolithic voting block than any other group in society.

Moreover, they make up a tiny percentage of the American population, about 2.4% and are unlikely to have any real impact on the overall outcome of this election.

The idea of laying the blame for an electoral loss at their feet is ludicrous.

So why would Donald Trump lean into age-old tropes and blame the Jews?

And why now, when we are at an inflection point with anti-Semitism on the rise? Trump has knowingly courted neo-Nazis and

others who espouse violence against Jews, like the time in November 2022 when he hosted white

supremacist and Holocaust denier, Nick Fuentes at Maralaga.

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