Doug Emhoff tells MSNBC Trump is 'putting a target' on backs of Jewish people

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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff agreed with MSNBC host Jen Psaki that former President Trump was "putting a target on the backs of Jewish Americans."

In a preview for an interview airing on MSNBC on Sunday, Emhoff told the former Biden White House press secretary that he was bothered by Trump's recent remarks at a Jewish event in Washington, where the Republican nominee warned Jewish American voters against supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, Emhoff's wife, in the upcoming election.

In those comments, Trump told Jewish voters, who've traditionally supported the Democratic Party, that they would be partly responsible if he lost in November.

"What really bothered me a week or so ago was when Trump got up at an event, an event purporting to fight antisemitism, and he said vile antisemitic things," Emhoff told Psaki. "Tropes that are just terrible. We have to speak out every single time when something like that happens."

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"When you hear him say things like that, and he said that if he doesn’t win it will be essentially the fault of Jewish Americans," Psaki said.

"Blame the Jews. One of the oldest tropes," Emhoff lamented.

Psaki followed up by asking him if he was worried that Trump was "putting a target on the backs of Jewish Americans," to which Emhoff agreed.

"He