The director of communications for Donald Trump’s Office of Public Liaison has said she has a “good relationship” with one of America’s most notorious antisemites, and “would look forward to sitting down with him.”
Omarosa Manigault, a former participant in Mr Trump’s Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice TV shows, was speaking about Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black supremacist Nation of Islam group, who has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Centre as “an antisemite who routinely accuses Jews of manipulating the US government and controlling the levers of world power”.
Mr Farrakhan has accused Jews of being behind 9/11, and has made numerous comments over the years about Jews controlling the media and other professions. For example, in a 2012 speech he said: “Jews control the media. They said it themselves…In Washington right next to the Holocaust museum is the Federal Reserve where they print the money. Is that an accident?”
Last year Mr Farrakhan praised Mr Trump for being, in his words, the only Presidential candidate “who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said, 'I don’t want your money’.”
