RantCrush Top 5: March 1, 2017

Yesterday Donald Trump and a senior adviser, Anthony Scaramucci, seemed to blame the recent threats against Jewish community centers on either Democrats or Jewish people themselves.

It’s not yet clear who the #JCC offenders are. Don’t forget @TheDemocrats effort to incite violence at Trump rallies https://t.co/uTBFGhI0Kh

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) February 28, 2017

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro spoke with Trump yesterday about the threats and recent vandalism targeting Jewish centers and cemeteries. He said that Trump implied a few times that the attacks were propagated by the Jewish community, with the intent to make Trump look bad. Trump was previously criticized for taking a long time to comment on the recent anti-Semitic incidents and many reacted strongly to his rude treatment of an orthodox Jewish reporter at a press conference a few weeks ago.

Who knows who’s behind this? For Trump to casually muse about it maybe being a false flag operation is … notable.https://t.co/pLmih7cjHw

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 28, 2017

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.