Twitter Explodes After Trump and Top Advisor Seemingly Try to Link Democrats to Terror Attacks on Jewish Centers

‘It’s Not Yet Clear Who the #JCC Offenders Are. Don’t Forget @Thedemocrats Effort to Incite Violence at Trump Rallies’

Investment banker and Donald Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci late Tuesday morning posted a tweet that seemingly appears to try to link Democrats to the 100 or so coordinated terror attacks on Jewish Community Centers that have taken place since the beginning of the year. 

Scaramucci first tweeted defense of the President, saying: “To blame President Trump for rise in anti-Semitism is extremely unfair. He condemns the heinous acts and is eager to find those responsible.”

Then he posted a tweet saying it isn’t clear yet who has attacked the community centers. On five separate days this year already there have been about 100 incidents of bomb threats called in to Jewish Community Centers, which often include day care centers for young children. They were forced to call police and to evacuate.

Scaramucci added, “Don’t forget @TheDemocrats effort to incite violence at Trump rallies,” and posted a link to an article in Breitbart, the website formerly run by President Trump’s Chief White House Strategist, Steve Bannon. That story cites the discredited conservative activist James O’Keefe, and claims that liberal activists hired trained “provocateurs to instigate violence” at GOP events, “including at several Donald Trump rallies.”

The juxtaposition of the statement that it’s unclear who the terrorists are, along with the article about Democrats was too much for many on Twitter, which exploded.

But amid that controversy has grown another.

A reporter for a Philadelphia-based news site reports that Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro was “among state attorneys general who met with President Trump this morning in Washington.”

Via Twitter Anna Orso of BillyPenn.com also said that “he brought up bomb threats, Jewish cemetery desecration over last few days with Trump.”

In her just-published article Orso writes, “President Donald Trump told Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro that bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers may have been from ‘the reverse’ to try to ‘make others look bad,’ Shapiro said today.”

When a reporter asked Shapiro if he took this to mean that Trump was implying his supporters were being framed, he responded that he can’t be sure what the president meant but that “he used the word ‘reverse’ I would say two to three times in his comments.”

It’s curious that both Scaramucci and the President at almost the same time appear to be trying to suggest the heinous attacks of terror against the Jewish community could be by Democrats trying to make the right look bad.

While Scaramucci only mentioned Jewish Community Centers in his tweet, Shapiro and the president apparently also discussed the attacks on Jewish cemeteries, one in Missouri and one in Pennsylvania. The Missouri attack included the overturning of about 200 headstones, the Pennsylvania attack included 500 headstones.

Some responses to Scaramucci via Twitter:

UPDATE I: 3:04 PM EST –
NBC News’ John Harwood corroborates story:

UPDATE II: 3:56 PM EST –
Former Obama Senior Advisor:

 

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