'Bullhorn': MAGA congressman blasted for using 'antisemitic trope to demonize Jews'

U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is under fire for spewing “blatant anti-semitism” and doing so in the middle of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

On Fox News Thursday morning, Congressman Burchett attacked George Soros, the liberal billionaire who has donated the vast majority of his fortune to his non-profit which has a goal to “support the growth of inclusive and vibrant democracies.”

“You have a man that does not have America’s interests at heart,” Burchett said of Soros. “He wants to destroy this country.”

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“He is a money-changer of the worst kind,” charged Burchett, using an antisemitic trope before making his pitch for Donald Trump to be back in the White House.

Last year Congressman Burchett bragged, “I voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. We can’t be representing anti-Semitic viewpoints on the world stage,” and told Newsmax, “Antisemitic activity or speech has no place in the United States Congress.”

“As a Jew, this strikes me as VERY antisemitic,” declared MSNBC’s and Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast, responding to the video of Burchett. “I don’t think people who traffic in antisemitism are ‘good’ for the Jews.”

Russell Drew, a self-described “amateur historian,” explains: “In calling George Soros a ‘money changer’, Congressman Burchett knows EXACTLY what he’s doing. Using an antisemitic trope to demonize Jews as greedy manipulators of finance. Such language has long fueled violence.”

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David Simon, the author, journalist and TV writer/producer known for “The Wire” wrote: “Just shout ‘dirty scheming Jew’ and get it all over with.”

MeidasTouch editor-in-chef Ron Filipkowski added, “Ah yes, those globalist Jewish ‘moneychangers’ who hate America pulling the strings behind the scenes. Welcome to 1936 in Donald Trump’s Republican Party.”

Former Obama chief strategist and White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod snarked, “A New Year message from the heart of MAGA to the Jewish community.”

Matt Duss of the Center for International Policy added, “Every evangelical voter knows exactly what this is supposed to mean. It’s not a dog whistle it’s an antisemitic bullhorn.”

Matthew Zeitlin, a correspondent at Heatmap News, asked why “money changer” was “even at the tip of your tongue?”

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