Farrakhan Praises Trump For Not Taking Money From ‘Jewish Community’

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Washington. Farrakhan says black men and women shoul... Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Washington. Farrakhan says black men and women should forsake foul language and violence against each other and that if things don't change in the black community, participating in the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is just "vanity." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) MORE LESS
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday praised Donald Trump as the only presidential candidate who hasn’t taken money from the “Jewish community,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Farrakhan said during his annual Saviors’ Day sermon delivered in Detroit that he wasn’t endorsing Trump, but that he liked “what I’m look­ing at.”

He said Trump “is the only mem­ber who has stood in front of Jew­ish com­mu­nity, and said, ‘I don’t want your money,'” as quoted by the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors anti-Semitism and bigotry. “Any time a man can say to those who con­trol the pol­i­tics of Amer­ica, ‘I don’t want your money,’ that means you can’t con­trol me.”

Farrakhan also reportedly called Jewish people the “Syn­a­gogue of Satan” and blamed them for 9/11 and the Iraq War.

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  1. Hah! You thought it couldn’t get any weirder!

  2. yeah…forming a coalition with Farrakhan and Duke is about as out there as I can imagine.

  3. Perfect on so many levels .
    Trump: “I like all kinds of people, especially anti-Semitics”

  4. Farrakhan and Duke—Trump is already a uniter!

  5. Lets see how fast Trump disavows Farrakhan. We won’t see the “I don’t know who that is, I need to research” response.

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