When CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked if he had anything to say to those of his supporters who sent Holocaust-themed memes and offered overnight casket delivery and homicide cleanup services to Julia Ioffe, a HuffPost Highline contributor who wrote a profile of Melania Trump for GQ, Trump simply replied, “I don’t have a message to the fans.”
Trump's failure to repudiate the very public anti-Semitism displayed by some of his supporters has emboldened them and even helped to legitimize these hate groups. Following Trump's CNN appearance, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, told the HuffPost, “We support Trump because he is the savior of the White race, sent by God to free us from the shackles of the Jew occupation and establish a 1000 Reich.”
And Mr. Trump still hasn’t spoken out against those anti-Semitic supporters who have threatened NY Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, called for the death of political commentator Ben Shapiro and his children, and told conservative pundit Bethany Mandel that she deserved “the oven”.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has issued a report on the anti-Semitic harassment of journalists during the 2016 campaign cycle. The ADL's Task Force on Harassment and Journalism found that more than 1.5 million tweets “containing language frequently found in anti-Semitic speech between August 2015— July 2016,” were tweeted as replies to journalists’ posts. The Task Force reported that the top ten targeted journalists, all of whom are Jewish, received 83%, or over 1.2 million, of those anti-Semitic tweets. And the ADL research found "the words that
"We support Trump because he is the savior of the White race, sent by God to free us from the shackles of the Jew occupation..."