PRESIDENT Donald Trump has suggested a series of bomb threats against Jewish community centres across the United States could be coming from within the Jewish community itself.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who was part of a group of state politicians meeting with Trump at the White House on Tuesday, repeated Trump’s comments about the bomb threats to Buzzfeed News.
Mr Shapiro said the President appeared to indicate he felt some of the threats were coming from the inside, as part of a potential effort “to make others look bad.”
“He just said, ‘sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people, or to make others, look bad’,” Shapiro, a Democrat, said, repeating Trump’s alleged comments.
“It didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” Shapiro said of Trump’s remarks.
Shapiro claimed Trump used the word “reverse,” “two or three times,” adding that Trump also called the threats “reprehensible” toward the beginning of his statements.
Jewish community centres and schools in at least 11 US states reported getting bomb threats, the JCC Association of North America said, the fifth wave of such threats this year that have stoked fears of a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
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