Late last month Trump said that Jewish people who voted for Democrats (that's the vast majority of Jewish people in the U.S.) were being disloyal, bringing up the common anti-Semitic trope of dual loyalty.
." While it appears that Leif Olson, a conservative former Houston-based lawyer, was mocking alt-right anti-Semites instead of joining them, the quick resignation may be the result of an administration that felt the impact of President Trump's recent dual-loyalty statements about Jewish Americans more deeply than they first let on.
Just two weeks into his job as a senior policy adviser in the Wage and Hour Division, Olson was queried about posts from 2016 that seemingly began as a debate about whether then-House Speaker Paul Ryan was a neo-conservative."No he's not. Neo-cons are all Upper East Side Zionists who don't golf on Saturday if you know what I mean," wrote Olson. The commenter he was speaking with then wrote back,"That's what I meant. He's a Jew. Everyone knows that.
The full posts, however, appear to show that Olson was in fact mocking alt-right parties and Paul Nehlen, a white nationalist who had run against Ryan, in particular."Establishment insider RINO corporate tool Paul Ryan was finally brought to heel in tonight's primary by an uprising of the conservatives masses... The guy just suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.
Still, the controversy and resignation came as the White House is still feeling the wake of President Trump's
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