Trump says Jewish people should be ‘ashamed’ to vote for Biden

Donald Trump has told Jewish voters they should be “ashamed” to vote for Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election.

The comments came as Mr Trump walked into the Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday morning for another day of his hush money trial. This week, porn star Stormy Daniels is on the witness stand, facing more cross-examination from the defendant’s lawyers.

“What Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful,” Mr Trump said. “If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. He’s totally abandoned Israel and nobody can believe it.”

Some online have mocked Mr Trump’s words.

“Trump has a curious strategy for appealing to the Jewish voters: he engages in antisemitism,” a Twitter/X user wrote on Thursday morning.

“The only Jews who should be ashamed are the 22 per cent with a favourable view of Donald Trump, who has proven beyond a doubt that he is ‘a bigot, a fraud, a misogynist, [and] a bully’, to quote the chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), Norm Coleman,” another user wrote.

Mr Trump’s comments come after President Biden’s administration paused its shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel. However, defence secretary Lloyd Austin said the US commitment to Israel remains “ironclad”.

“We are currently reviewing some near-term security assistance shipments in the context of the ongoing events in Rafah,” Mr Austin said earlier this week.

Concerns are growing that Israeli forces will launch a major ground offensive in Rafah, the southern Gaza city in which more than a million people are sheltering from Israel’s attacks.

The Palestinian health ministry says Israel’s continued assault on Gaza has killed almost 35,000 people, most of whom were women and children. The