How American politicians are trying to be related to the Russians. Pedigree of Trump Who is trump by nationality
The traditions of "clinging" to the glory of the winners go back to the depths of centuries and from the most ancient times among the great and famous people, there were a lot of people who wanted to join their glory. The current winner is no exception. presidential elections in the USA Donald Trump.
Version 1. Trump Ukrainian
The first that the ancestors Donald Trump were from Ukraine, they said from Ukraine. And while some politicians, journalists and public figures, urgently overwrite their posts on social networks and remove videos from YouTube, where they poured mud on candidate Trump, others fussed and found Ukrainian roots in the 45th US president. For example, a certain Igor Dekhto (obviously a fictitious nickname) asked his friends on Facebook to send a message to Donald Trump that his ancestors lived in the Poltava region in the village of Kozyach Valka (specified by Vasyl Tkachik, who apparently lives in this village himself).
Well, if everything is rather "sour" with the evidence about Trump's Ukrainian origin, and looks more and more like a joke, then ancestors of his 2nd wife, unambiguously Belarusian Jews, moreover, also partisans ...
A few months ago, Trump's former son-in-law Jared Kushner indicated that he is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. According to him, on December 7, 1941, the Nazis surrounded the ghetto of the city of Novogrudok (Grodno region of Belarus) and divided people into two lines: those who stood on the right were to die, those on the left were to stay alive. “My grandmother's sister, Esther, ran into the house to hide. The boy who saw her escape dragged her out - and she became one of the approximately 5,100 Jews killed during the first massacre in Novogrudok. In 1943, on the night before Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) The 250 Jews left in the town plotted to escape through a tunnel they painstakingly dug under the fence...” According to Jared Kushner, his grandmother and her sister did not want to leave their father, so they remained at the end of the line of fugitives next to him. When the first participants of the escape appeared from the tunnel, the Nazis opened fire on them. About fifty people died - among them was Jared's grandmother's brother, she herself managed to escape and she joined the partisan detachment of the Belsky brothers. There she met her future husband, who had escaped from the labor camp and lived in a dugout in the forest.
The Jewish partisan detachment was created by the Belsky brothers (Tuvya, Asael, Zus) in Belarus in December 1941. At first, not numerous, it grew to 250 people at the expense of those who fled from the Novogrudok ghetto. In February 1943, the Belsky detachment was included in the partisan detachment"October" of the Lenin Brigade.
Version 2. Trump Cypriot
But not only in (in) Ukraine there are those who want to cling to the glory of the President of America. And now we are reading that Donald Trump turns out to have Cypriot roots. Some, for example Janis Khionis on the pages of xeroteana.com even got indignant, asking the question, why Trump hides his Cypriot origin.
According to the author of the publication, the information that Trump's ancestors came to the United States from Germany is not true. Trump, Yanis Khionis assures readers, comes from Cypriot immigrants who arrived penniless in 19th century America.
Trump's grandfather, Daniel Trump, arrived in America from the village of Lefkoniko in Cyprus in 1885, at the age of 16. Initially he worked infor several years as a hairdresser in New - York. Then he made his first venture business by opening in a small mining operation in Washington Staterestaurant available for guests, and women, in back rooms.
Trump's grandfather, having saved up some money, went on a visit to his homeland, where he married Elizabeth Komodromou. With which they returned to America. The reason for the return was the unwillingness of Dud Trump to serve in the Cypriot army.
In 1905, the grandparents of the 45th president, in New York in 1905, father Donald, Fred Trump was born.
The Cypriot grandfather died in 1918 at the age of 69, leaving enough money for his heirs to start a small company. The company was called E. Trump & Son and dealt with real estate.
After 1923, when the orphan Fred finished school, he began working in construction. At that time, in America, it was a period when there was a negative attitude towards the Cypriots in the USA. Fred Trump, realizing that the fact that they were children of Cypriots would create many barriers for them, created the legend that his parents were from Sweden. This "history" is considered official and is accepted as the main one today.
True, eternally suspicious journalists sometimes arrange interrogations for him, in which Trump somehow let it slip. Many years ago, in an interview with Vanity Fair, when a journalist insisted that Trump's ancestors were from Cyprus, Trump, not wanting to admit this claim and not finding anything smart to say, issued: "My father was not a Cypriot, his parents were Kypraia in Sweden (Germany?), and what's the difference, they were all from Europe."
Curiously, the Cypriot village from which the Trump family originated, Lefkoniko, is also home to other well-known people, such as the Ace family, who founded the Ass cigarette empire.
According to Wikipedia, Donald Trump's origins are as follows:
Trump's father is Fred Christ Trump (10/11/1905, Woodhaven, New York, USA - 06/25/1999).
Donald Trump's paternal grandparents were German immigrants: Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump, 03/14/1869, Kallstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate - 03/30/1918) immigrated to the United States in 1885, received citizenship in 1892; his wife is Elizabeth Christ (10/10/1880 - 06/6/1966). Wed in Kallstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate in 1902.
Mother - Mary Ann MacLeod (05/10/1912, Tong, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland - 08/07/2000); in 1930, at the age of 18, she left for the holidays in New York, where she met a local builder and stayed. The wedding took place in 1936.
Trump has two brothers and two sisters - Fred Jr. (now deceased), Robert, Marianne and Elizabeth. His older sister, Marianne Trump-Barry, is a federal appeals court judge and the mother of David Desmond, a well-known neuropsychologist and writer in the United States.
Which of the above information is true and which is fiction is unknown, even more unknown is the limit of human vanity, which encourages people to compose such information. So, we are waiting for new variants of the origin and new relatives of Donald Trump.
U.S. presidential hopeful tycoon humiliated at military school
Donald in the family
To begin with, the paternal family name of the current presidential candidate was not Trump, but Drumpf. Enemies of the billionaire frolic enough over the freak - they say, Drumpf would never become a world-famous brand. It is good that Donald's grandfather, a German immigrant (like his grandmother), unaware of the future difficulties of the future grandson with such a clumsy surname, guessed to replace it with a more sonorous one.
The Trump family (Drumpfs) has been living in the States since 1885. After the usual emigrant ordeals, wandering in search of work "from sea to sea" and heading east, the first generation of Trumps safely settled in New York's Queens, laying the foundation of the family construction business there.
Donald Trump with his father
Father Fred Crist Trump was a large and prosperous housing developer in Queens and Brooklyn. Patiently, economically, but without sacrificing the quality of the building, daily work to exhaustion (no holidays or weekends), Fred gradually expanded his business until he became the owner of his own building empire. By the time Donald was born on June 14, 1946, Fred was a millionaire.
Mother, Mary Ann McLeod, originally from Scotland. As an eighteen-year-old young lady, she went to New York for the holidays, where she met a local builder and stayed. The wedding was played in 1936.
Mary Ann, finding herself in the unromantic provincial Queens, was very homesick, often visiting the island town where she was born in 1912, and a couple of times she took Donald, his two brothers and two sisters with her. The mother knew Gaelic and taught her children to this mysterious language. Trips to Scotland, local relatives, fragments of Gaelic legends and songs that his mother still remembered - all this picturesque foreignness had a noticeable influence on the not very impressionable Donald, somehow shaping his personality. mother to both wives: Ivan's ex-wife and current Melania were born outside the United States. With them, Trump was more comfortable than with independent American women pumping their feminist rights.
Donald was the fourth in a family of five children. The family was exemplary, the upbringing was strict, demanding, exacting. Children firmly knew their duties, as well as the expectations of ambitious parents. A system of rewards, rewards and punishments was introduced. Thrift and respect for the dollar were cultivated.
The father refused the teenager Donald the coveted baseball glove - a little expensive, earn extra money for it yourself. Not allowed to practice on private golf courses: "What's wrong with public parks?" Paternal stinginess, but simply stinginess, oppressed Donald from childhood. He just loved to boast about family wealth, to show off in front of his neighbors, driving around with his father in a chic Cadillac.
Adult Donald Trump remembers himself as a family darling, the beloved son of a formidable father. In fact, the common favorite was the first-born - the charming peace-loving Freddie, eight years older than Donald. It was on Freddie that all family hopes were pinned, but he opposed his father's imperious dictate, neglected his father's destiny, for which he was severely punished. Later, after the fall of Freddie, Donald will earn the title of "beloved son" and become the heir to his father's business.
In the meantime, thirteen-year-old Donald is not only not a favorite, he is a malicious violator of the statutory family decency. He is experiencing, but somehow too violently and unsightly for others, his protracted stage of teenage rebellion against all sorts of authorities, laws and rules. Disgustingly studies at school, is rude, insolent and even spits. Absolutely out of control. At the same time, he is arrogant, proud and self-confident without measure.
It seems to be a typical impulsive unconscious manifestation of a person who is not yet aware of his size and limits. And if the teenage rebellion is especially stubborn, then here, psychologists say, an outstanding, large-scale personality hatched.
But Fred Trump was not up to psychological subtleties. Already puzzled by the willfulness of his eldest son, he does not intend to endure Donald's rebellion. The presumptuous boy was a disgrace to an exemplary, respected family. His indomitability was considered by his father, and by the whole family, except for the soft-hearted Freddie, as a malicious hooliganism to be eradicated.
The boy was removed from his home, from a liberal school, where he was pedagogically tolerated, and transported to the north of the state, to military school- a remote branch of the New York Military Academy - where he was imprisoned without a break for five whole years.
Without family. Donald Trump Punishment
Sometime in the 1990s, Steve Wynn, the gambling mogul and longtime friend-enemy-rival of Donald Trump, after observing Trump's sadistic rapture - verbally and preemptively - dealt with an imaginary enemy, exclaimed: “How deeply disturbed he is mentally! How badly and badly injured! In childhood or when growing up - who did what with him?
The military school where Fred Trump sent the recalcitrant son was in those years something like a penitentiary for juveniles. The impudent boy had not had time to get used to the new place, as he was subjected to forced processing. He was mocked - verbally and disciplinaryly, he was insulted, humiliated, morally trampled, and when he tried to protest, indignation, complaints - he was beaten.
The brutal reprisal against the arrogant newcomer was carried out with dashing variations, until they got the finished product: unquestioningly submissive, an enthusiast of discipline, a zealous executor of any orders - in short, an exemplary ideal cadet. The system did not fail. There were no punctures - none.
Donald's first year at military school is a shock, a nightmare, a disaster. The official punitive measures were supplemented by amateur, secretly statutory bullying by senior cadets against a novice. In English - "hazing" (hazing).
This hashing was enough for the young Trump, it seems, over the edge. He wore someone else's linen for washing, polished shoes, received leftovers for dinner, resignedly endured any insults and incessant beatings.
Here is what Donald Trump writes about his - severely traumatized - adolescence, spent instead of his home, in a military school. The only place in his autobiography that is not painted in positive tones:
“It was called like this: knock this shitty arrogance out of you, all your damned ambition - and without a trace. To be as good as new. Without any quirks there. Tough, tough guys. They came at you with a battle cry and - bam! - blow, another blow and - from the feet! And you are already crawling towards them for mercy, crushed, agreeing to everything in advance - “Yes, Sir!” If some guy did today what they did then, he would get a quarter in jail!
Yes, our Donald flew into this school colony! He perceived his misfortune as a father's punishment-curse, but most importantly - nothing deserved. Punishment without crime. And when, after five years, he left this school, he understood that he had served his sentence in full.
At first, he internally resisted violence. And he even kept in his dormitory a photograph of his brother Freddie, a rebel and self-initiator who chose the life and profession of a pilot - here he is standing next to an awesome plane.
But then Donald removed this photo. When I realized that self-preservation is not only fruitless, but also unprofitable.
And what to keep? He did not perceive his former self - a swindler and a brawler, he no longer remembered. That independent, cocky kid was crushed and erased by his father's curse.
Another powerful stimulus for extreme survival came into play. Nervous Freddie - get into such a mess - would immediately break down. Donald was tough, assertive, thick-skinned enough to resist and recreate himself.
He became an exemplary, exemplary cadet. He did not get off the honor roll, received awards from the academy, set sports records, rose to the highest rank of battalion foreman among cadets. So - a little picturesquely, virtually - already 18-year-old Donald Trump not only amuses his injured pride, but - above all - tries to please his father, to justify his expectations.
When the brilliant cadet uniform was thrown off, a young man with a slightly lopsided psyche emerged from the military school. There was fear in him. Fear of punishment is unknown for what. A painful feeling of imminent danger and the constant hostility of the surrounding world. Awareness of the need for preventive self-defense: to be able to fight back in time and know your enemies.
Trump Education
After graduating from military school, 18-year-old Donald amused his ambition a little with the illusion of a free choice of a future profession. He had fun with the idea of going into show business, not construction, enrolling in California for scriptwriting and directing courses, joining Hollywood ... and now he is a Hollywood star.
Dreams are unrealizable and dangerous. The father did not know about them and should not have known. The choice of the field for Donald was made by Frederick Trump, as finally and irrevocably as the previously cruel, traumatic ordeal of a youngster Donald, forcibly removed from his family, by a military school.
Donald meekly obeyed the will of his father, who chose the career of a developer for him, was recognized - instead of Freddie, excommunicated from birthright - as heir family business, and the tempting prospects of his own brilliant success, backed by his father's millions, were already flashing in his cinematic imagination.
He enters Fordham University, but after studying for two years, unsatisfied ("as if he had not studied at all"), Trump makes a giant breakthrough in his education - he encroaches on the famous, prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Where it is difficult to enter, and even more difficult to graduate.
Trump graduated from Wharton in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a major in finance. "Years of study have transformed me." Prospects and ways of entering into a large-scale "big" business have been outlined. "After Wharton, it's impossible to go back."
But I had to return. To his father's old-fashioned construction company for an ambitious Wharton graduate. For five whole years.
Donald at the bottom of the well. Vegetation years: 1968–1973
By that time, Fred Trump was the leading real estate developer in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Specialized in the complex construction of multi-apartment residential buildings, designed for middle class. Fred built solid, strong, solid, extremely economical buildings (standard six-story buildings predominated), unremarkable, standard. But it was a fairly high standard and with a mark of quality, meeting the needs and whims of well-to-do tenants. Fred was a successful entrepreneur and investor, and with patience, diligence, hard work and saving every penny, he slowly built and increased his construction empire.
In 1964, Fred undertook his most audacious, huge, and proudly named project: the construction of Trump Village. This colossal Brooklyn (at that time and locally) development included seven powerful buildings of 23 floors each and its own shopping center. Never before, with such a scope and swing, the cautious Trump, who hardly finished high school, did not get involved! Never before had I undertaken such formidable obligations!
In this family village, his creative powers, his mobile enterprise, dried up. He no longer built conglomerates
When Donald, excited by Wharton's progressive ideas, returned to his father's mansion in Queens, and then went to his father's office in Brooklyn - tight-fisted Fred ran all his bulky business from a small room in one of his residential buildings - so, 22-year-old Donald, scrolling crazy plans for rapid enrichment in his head, was shocked and depressed by the pettiness of his father's daring on construction sites.
When Donald started working at his father's company, they were no longer developing large construction projects. The son managed, under the guidance of his father, to modernize the large Swifton Village apartment complex in Ohio, spending $6 million on it and selling it for $12 million, thus making a 100% profit. This was Donald's first project, implemented during his student years.
But basically construction company Trump specialized not in construction, but in renting houses, selling or renting ready-made apartments. It was necessary to serve the entire Trump apartment empire, which had spread over three districts-towns.
Inspecting their homes, and above all the colossal Trump Village, Fred and Donald were well aware of how they looked in the eyes of their thousands of tenants - the first and second generation of typically German builders. And since a significant contingent in their buildings were Jews, the Trumps showed a certain delicacy and prudence, long years assuring the press and all the curious that the family comes from Sweden, not Germany. What subsequently led to confusion and misunderstandings in finding out the nationality of Donald - many considered him a Swede.
In his father's company, Donald worked, receiving a salary, for five years. Year after year, every month, he collected rent in Brooklyn - from house to house, door to door, often accompanied by thugs to protect against aggressive tenants. Dangling on asphalt around construction sites did not go well for a Wharton graduate, and Donald's imagination instantly presented a saving option.
“Father intuitively saw how to build, and I learned this business mainly from him. But if I was ahead of him in anything, it was in the concept of building. And also in a big way...” Rather, in a swing, and Donald swung - so far in his imagination - to Manhattan, anticipating that this area would become his gold mine.
The minimalism of Fred's claims, piercing the construction site with his eyes - where else to knock it off, tearing an extra nail out of the ground: it will come in handy - offended the ambitious Donald. He wanted to sell apartments to billionaires who want to live on Fifth Avenue and are not used to saving.
Dreamed of conquering Manhattan. Dreamed to maniac. No clear plans, no business connections, no financial support. Depressed, noticeably complex, confused, indelibly provincial (a guy from Queens with an accent - they will shove him at the zenith of wealth and fame). At 27, he is a boy, his hair is tousled, his personality is indefinite, mentally, emotionally clearly underdeveloped (he will remain that way for a long time, if not forever). It is hard to believe that in five years the boy (remaining a boy) will begin to galvanize Manhattan, which has fallen into decline in the recession.
In the meantime, Donald Trump, having left the construction site and collected another rent from the residents of Trump Village, is standing on the other side of the East River and looking at Manhattan. From day to day…
Donald Trump, according to the author of this material, has the talents America needs.
The material below expresses a private opinion about the candidate for the presidency of the United States Donald Trump, presented by a man who has been working with him for about 20 years ...
WHY - DONALD TRUMP?
Jason Dov Greenblat
What qualities do I note in Donald Trump, arguing that this is the kind of person America needs?
First of all, probably, it is the devotion to the work in which he is engaged, the enthusiasm with which he works.
Of great importance is his perseverance, firmness of will, manifested in the ability to achieve the goals that he sets for himself.
In addition, Trump has a unique combination common sense businessman - with a large-scale vision of problems. Thanks to this, he achieves tremendous success.
I have often seen Trump skillfully negotiate, handling the most difficult cases that many would not be able to. There is no word “impossible” in his lexicon - from any difficult situation he finds a constructive way out with inexhaustible ingenuity, sometimes completely unexpected.
In this context, his attitude towards the people with whom he works deserves special attention.
Many of us have been working with Trump for 20 or even 30 years. And in practice, we made sure that he appreciates and respects everyone, accepting us as we are, and, taking into account the abilities and inclinations of each person, helps to achieve more in our careers.
At the same time, he creates a friendly, “family” atmosphere around him, in which people feel comfortable, trust him and his vision of reality, feel responsible for the implementation of the tasks entrusted to them and are ready to work with full dedication.
Trump encourages the creative initiatives of his employees, keeping us confident that with great desire, our wildest dreams can be realized.
He knows how to infect others with his energy and new ideas. And we know that he can be trusted and trusted. He tries to keep abreast of our difficulties and problems, and each of us is always ready to provide support and assistance.
Everything said here confirms, it seems to me, that Trump is a true and promising leader, capable of leading the country, improving the condition of American citizens, leading America to success and restoring US authority in the world.
The Jews of America have, in my opinion, their own reason for voting for the candidacy of Donald Trump.
I judge by myself. I am a Jew striving to live according to the laws of Jewish tradition. People like me (and not only in America, but also in other diaspora countries) are well aware that the employer of any non-Jewish institution is not obliged to take into account the peculiarities of the Jewish way of life (in particular, laws prohibiting a Jew from working on Saturdays and on days Jewish holidays mentioned in the Torah). On this basis, intractable conflicts often arise between the management of companies and Jews, up to the dismissal of a Jew from work.
In my entire period of work with Trump, I have never had similar problems. For he consistently respects and understands my beliefs and priorities. I have the opportunity to spend enough time with my family, completely disconnect from labor activity on Shabbat, read prayers in the synagogue and be an active member of the Jewish community.
As Jews, his attitude towards Israel should also be important. And I know that Donald Trump understands how difficult it is to keep Israeli citizens safe so that they can live in peace without fear of terrorist attacks. At the same time, he sincerely wants to help Israel, believes that this problem has a real solution and is ready to make every effort to achieve this.
Trump treats Israel with the great respect that the country deserves. In his understanding, Israel is America's most reliable partner and ally, among other things, and because Israel and the United States have similar principles and values. Trump will demand from the leaders of the Palestinian Authority that they stop spreading lies and hatred towards Jews and Israel. This, in his opinion, will help break the vicious circle of confrontation and terror.
Donald Trump believes that unilateral initiatives that are trying to impose on Israel the UN and many countries will not lead to a lasting peace. He believes that both sides should sit down at the negotiating table and agree on a lasting and just peace that will allow Israelis to live in security. But for this, in his opinion, the Palestinian side must recognize Israel as a Jewish country, and Israel must recognize the right of the Palestinians to their own state. And Trump, if he becomes the President of the United States, is ready to become a mediator in these negotiations.
In March this year, I attended the AIPAC conference. I believe that Trump's speech was much stronger and more convincing than the speeches of his opponents. He is well aware of what Israel is facing and how important its role is for the United States and for the whole world.
Donald Trump is convinced that the friendship between Israel and the United States is unbreakable.
I have no doubt that Trump will make every effort to put out the fire blazing in the Middle East. He will work tirelessly to stop the flow of weapons from Iran and Money puppet states and terrorist organizations. He will do everything so that the families of terrorists do not receive from Iran and other countries financial assistance that encourages terror.
Trump sees perfectly well that the terrorist network is dangerous not only for Israel, but also for the United States. And will seek to break the global terrorist network built by Iran.
So, to the question why America needs Donald Trump, I will answer that he is a big-minded, talented leader who soberly assesses domestic American and world problems and is ready to give all his strength to solve them.
I deeply believe that Trump can do a lot for all of us on the path to security, prosperity and unity. And, like a Jew who is very important Jewish traditions and Israel, I emphasize that by choosing Trump, we Jews will be in good hands.
Material of the Jewish Telegraph Agency
Translation from English
Jason Dov Greenblat,
Executive Vice President and Chief Counsel for the Trump Organization,
a Jew who observes the traditions of his people
Exclusive:
“Everything points to Trump being the next president”
Israeli Republican Party spokesman Mark Purpose: "The public is beginning to understand that Hillary cannot be relied upon"
Mark Stode
Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Israeli Republican Party, attorney Mark Target says all signs point to Donald Trump becoming the next US president.
“His chances are improving day by day, both in national polls and swing states, we are either level or leading. According to all reports, we have different results, all signs show us victory on November 8th. I was invited to campaign headquarters on Election Day and I am considering [going] there.”
Purpose added that "After the election, America will take stock and recognize that the main funds mass media in America and Israel - with the exception of Arutz Sheva (Channel 7 - ed.), which is balanced and fair, and I hope you continue in the same way - everyone was biased in favor of Clinton. A universal, international phenomenon, everyone should be against Trump. We are very concerned about this phenomenon, and I hope that after our victory, everything will change.”
Purpose explained that the American public is discovering on a daily basis that Hillary Clinton is behind.
“I can see how the public feels about all of Hillary’s lies and misdeeds even before today’s latest scandal. There should be another scandal when Wikileaks releases some of the 33,000 emails Hillary erased. The public is starting to realize that [she] can't rely on Hillary."
The politician claims that even those who are not seduced by Trump will vote for him, because in this election “it is necessary to return the government to the people. Clinton is part of the establishment and the people want leadership in Washington back to the nation."
According to the American television channel ABC, US President-elect Donald Trump demanded that US intelligence agencies hold a special briefing for his son-in-law,. This means that Trump intends to bring him into his own administration.
What position the 35-year-old graduate, a brilliant businessman who has been a trustee for several years, will be appointed to, is not yet clear. However, many American media I was interested in another fact: Kushner is an Orthodox Jew who strictly observes traditions.
This fact surprised many of Trump's critics, who accused him of targeting American white nationalists. For example, the other day the scandal was caused by another appointment to the future Trump team, which will come to White House in January 2017.
Helpful Anti-Semites
The president-elect of the United States has appointed Steve a, the former head of the conservative tabloid Breitbart News, as his chief adviser. Bannon's candidacy was strongly opposed by the Anti-Defamation League, which is engaged in the fight against racist and anti-Semitic organizations.
Representatives of the organization said that Bannon's appointment is "a sad day for the United States", as he headed an Internet resource, which, among other things, focuses on representatives of right-wing nationalist groups, anti-Semites and racists.
Bannon, meanwhile, was defended by a number of representatives of the American Jewish diaspora. True, most of them work in the structures that Bannon finances. “Steve is a friend of the Jews, he supports Israel, and at the same time he is a devoted patriot of America and a great leader,” said Orthodox Jew Joe Pollak, one of the leading editors of Breitbart News, in an interview.
In the election, Trump was supported by a large number of white nationalists and representatives of far-right groups, although their support was not decisive. Nevertheless, the association of the President-elect of the United States with such groups is largely a political fashion, reflecting an extremely tight election race. Trump's rival, a Democrat and former US Secretary of State, has done a lot to demonize the Republican competitor's image.
Trump's allies point out that he has never shared anti-Semitic views, having worked alongside Jews in business for many years. This was confirmed in an interview with Gazeta.Ru by the Israeli political scientist Benny, ex-adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel and former executive director of the Russian Jewish Congress. Briskin himself knows many of the Jewish business people who have worked with Trump.
So far, Trump's decisions fit into the logic of a pragmatic populist who seeks to use all the levers of influence that contribute to his popularity. In this sense, the politician focuses on white nationalists no less and no more than on the Jewish diaspora.
Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, daughter of the President-elect of the United States, is the son of one of the leaders of the New York Jewish diaspora, Charles Kushner. Kushner senior, like the elected president of the United States, worked in construction business, and Jared was involved in the Trump campaign, overseeing the direction of digital media. According to ABC, the key to Kushner's appointment to the White House is that Trump has worked with him for a long time and trusts him.
Jewish channels of the Kremlin
As Gazeta.Ru was told by a high-ranking and informed source, in search of channels of communication with Trump, the Kremlin representatives used representatives of Russian Jewish business circles who have contacts with the Kushner family and have influence on Ivanka Trump.
The President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) said in an interview with Gazeta.Ru that he could neither confirm nor deny the information that the Kremlin was trying to establish contact with Trump through representatives of Jewish business.
“In general, attempts to use representatives of international business, including Jewish business, are absolutely normal in this situation. I am sure: not only representatives Russian leadership looking for contacts with Donald Trump,” he said.
According to Kanner, after Trump's victory in the US elections, traditional political and diplomatic channels ceased to be relevant for a while: the elected American leader is a businessman and before election campaign was not involved in politics.
Kanner confirmed that Trump is connected to the Jewish diaspora through his daughter Ivanka. “She accepted conversion, and orthodox,” said the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru. - That is, this Judaism is strict, with a large number mandatory bans. And Ivanka observes all this, she has a strict, serious approach. Be sure to observe Shabbat."
Yuri Kanner recalled that the daughter of Hillary Clinton, Trump's rival in the US elections, also converted to Judaism, but is much less strict about religious traditions. The elder Clinton's ties to the Jewish diaspora don't seem to be as close either.
“About seven years ago, when I just started working as the President of the RJC, we had a a big problem. The singer, a very important figure in the Russian Jewish diaspora, had problems obtaining a visa to the United States, ”recalls Kanner.
“Then I contacted the President of the World Jewish Congress, Ron Om, a Republican representative of a very respected American Jewish family. I asked him to help. Ron promised to talk about it with Hillary Clinton, who at that time was the US Secretary of State,” said the head of the RJC.
Only a month later, Lauder received a response from Clinton, the source told Gazeta.Ru.
“It was an absolutely boorish reply in its form, which advised Kobzon to contact the American consulate at the place of residence,” Kanner added. - After that, I decided to look into this issue in detail, I spent a lot of effort on it. In the end, it turned out that the question is really complex. But the Clinton representatives certainly could have shown more respect.”
Diaspora split
In the circles of the Russian-speaking diaspora, Trump enjoys much more support than in the American Jewish community. Benny Briskin explains this by the fact that the majority of immigrants from the USSR perceive the “left-liberal ideas” of the Democrats with hostility. Some of them also hope for an improvement in US relations with Russia.
"They think that good relationship between Israel, Russia and the US are good for the global climate. In addition, many Russian-speaking Jews believe that the main watershed today is not relations between Russia and Ukraine, but a conflict between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic civilizations,” says Briskin.
However, according to opinion polls, the majority of representatives of Jewish organizations supported the candidacy of Democrat Hillary Clinton. A GBA Strategies poll among American Jews showed that 68% of them were going to vote for Hillary and only 28% for Trump.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, the spread of the vote was about the same: 68% for Obama and 31% for his Republican rival. Only then did he win, and this time it was Trump, contrary to all opinion polls.
During the campaign, some disgruntled Republicans tried to persuade Jewish groups not to support him.
Last September, on the sidelines of the congress, a Gazeta.Ru correspondent accidentally heard a snippet of a conversation: one of the congressmen urged his interlocutor to “turn the guys from AIPAC against Trump.”
It was about one of the largest Jewish lobbying groups AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Relations Committee). Representatives of this organization during the election campaign really sharply opposed Trump. In March, they even had to apologize for Trump's speech at AIPAC and where he is in once more smashed the policies of US President Barack Obama to smithereens.
“The Jewish community is very diverse. For example, one of prominent representatives American Jewry is a senator from the state of Vermont, who also ran for president of the United States in these elections and received strong support, - added the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru. “He represents a completely different, largely left-wing, ideology and is unlikely to be an ally of the president-elect.”
There is no single Jewish community in the United States, Ariel Cohen, a leading expert at the Atlantic Council, told Gazeta.ru. “Most Jews vote for Democrats traditionally, but the Republican Jewish coalition managed to do a lot for Trump’s victory, and he has a couple of powerful Jewish donors, including the legendary one,” the expert said.
Adelson, who has been called the "King of the Casino", is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is Trump's biggest donor and has given more than $30 million to his campaign.
Republican Jews have a lot of hopes for Trump. Moreover, many Middle Eastern publicists expect him to .
Trump's "Israelization"
During the campaign, Trump promised to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, the status of which is disputed by the delegations of the vast majority of Islamic countries.
If the politician keeps his promise, this will be a very powerful signal of US support for Israel.
Trump's support for Israel, the main US ally in the Middle East, has caused a great rush of emotions in this country. Israeli leader Netanyahu has already expressed hope that US-Israel relations will improve under Trump. Despite the fact that the allied ties are quite strong, the personal relationship between Obama and Netanyahu did not work out.
“Now it seems that few American leaders have been as bad for Israeli-American relations as Obama,” said Yuri Kanner. According to him, the Middle East remembered very well how positively the first term of the current outgoing american president— and on what note does his reign end.
Obama delivered an ambitious speech at Cairo University calling for the opening of new page in relations between the United States and the Islamic world.
However, over the past eight years of Obama's rule, the wars in the region have not ended, many conflicts have escalated, and a terrorist " Islamic State" (banned in the Russian Federation). The situation in the Middle East for Israel has not become safer even despite the nuclear deal with Iran, which froze the nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
The US President has repeatedly demonstrated his displeasure with Netanyahu's conservative policies. Obama didn't even grant him an audience when the Israeli prime minister came to Washington at the invitation of Republican Speaker of Congress John Boehner in March 2015.
Now, as Benny Briskin explains to Gazeta.Ru, a more favorable situation has developed for Netanyahu.
“If earlier his tenure coincided with the Democratic one, with which he never had any luck, today the situation is different,” he said. “Everyone who supports Netanyahu is happy with Trump’s election.”
Both Trump and Netanyahu agree on two critical points: the legitimacy of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the risk posed by the Iran nuclear deal, as a senior analyst at Gulf State Analytics in Washington notes.
The expert also noted that Trump surrounds himself with figures that symbolize "a clear break with the policies of the Obama administration." “This is perceived as a positive change,” says Karasik.