Trump Won’t Condemn Anti-Semitic Threats On Journo Who Profiled His Wife (VIDEO)

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After a journalist was met with a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse and threats over her GQ magazine profile of Melania Trump, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to condemn the attacks from his supporters.

During a sit-down interview Wednesday night on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked what Trump’s message is to the hoards who have “viciously attacked” reporter Julia Ioffe. The profile revealed Melania Trump had a secret half-brother still living in her native Slovenia and covered a legal dispute over the former model’s caviar skincare line.

Trump said while he hadn’t read the article, he heard it was “very inaccurate” and “nasty.”

“I’m married to a woman who is a very fine woman. She doesn’t need this, believe me,” he said, recounting how Melania Trump was “tremendously” successful as a model and “made a lot of money.”

He also described his wife as a “very high-quality woman who loves people and has a big heart,” saying, “they shouldn’t be doing that with wives.”

Blitzer interrupted: “But the anti-Semitic death threats that have followed –”

“Oh, I don’t know about that. I don’t know anything about that. You mean fans of mine?” Trump replied.

“Supposed fans of posting these very angry – but your message to these fans is?” Blitzer continued.

“I don’t have a message to the fans,” the billionaire said. “A woman wrote an article that’s inaccurate.”

He went on to rail against the “dishonest” media, saying he’s used to their treatment.

After Ioffe’s profile was published in GQ, she was met with an onslaught of images of her face edited onto Holocaust photos and caricatures of Jews being executed. She also told the Guardian US she had received multiple threatening phone calls.

Watch Trump’s remarks via CNN:

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  1. Oh, I don’t know about that. I don’t know anything about that. You mean fans of mine?” Trump replied.

    Supposed fans of posting these very angry – but your message to these fans is?” Blitzer continued.

    “I don’t have a message to the fans,” the billionaire said. “A woman wrote an article that’s inaccurate.”

    I’m beginning to miss the days when these people used to bum rush the fact checkers.

    By the way, Blitzer was trying to give him leeway…discuss.

  2. Republican Donald Trump on Thursday named Steven Mnuchin, chairman and CEO of private investment firm Dune Capital Management LP, to serve as the national finance chairman for his presidential campaign.

    Mnuchin, also a former partner at Goldman Sachs, will bring finance experience to the campaign’s fundraising operation, the statement said.

    Steven Mnuchin came to Los Angeles with a certain New York sheen. The son of a prominent New York banker and arts patron, Mnuchin spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs building a fortune reportedly worth $46 million, before forming his own firm, Dune Capital, that would bring him even more luster. By the mid-2000s, Dune was providing financing for batches of winning movies, like the “X-Men” franchise and “Avatar,” Hollywood’s all-time box-office champion.
    
    So when Mnuchin and Relativity Media announced last October that they had formed a new bond – the one-time Wall Street star investing in the Beverly Hills studio and joining founder Ryan Kavanaugh as co-chairman of the company’s board – it appeared to be a breakthrough moment for all concerned. Mnuchin deemed himself “thrilled” at the prospect of working with Kavanaugh and his team “as they continue to build a global media company that is redefining what it means to be a content creator in the 21st century.”
    
    With Relativity’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week, those high hopes have been dashed, and Mnuchin has been left in a particularly uncomfortable position. The money-man and fellow investors in a Dune Capital fund are said to have lost as much as $80 million — equity that is almost certain to be lost for good, said two sources familiar with the situation. And disgruntled Relativity investors privately are questioning how a bank Mnuchin once headed –OneWest Bank of Pasadena – was allowed by Relativity to drain $50 million from the studio just weeks prior to the July 30 insolvency filing.
    
    Mnuchin, who is partnered with Brett Ratner and James Packer in the film financing company Ratpac-Dune Entertainment, did not respond to repeated calls for comment.
    
    http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/relativity-steve-mnuchin-co-chairman-1201557256/
  3. Hmmmmmmmmm…and somehow, someway there are people t hat ‘believe’ he is Presidential. Lord.

  4. Ask Sheldon Adelson if the threats are OK…

  5. Trump’s message is to the hoards

    It’s hordes, Ms. Krueger, hordes. But back to The Third Mrs. Trump. We’re going to hear more and more and Melanjia Knav from Slovenia, so let’s start here.

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