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- Moreno made the comment while speaking to reporters about the Republican Party’s efforts to pass President Trump’s tax cut agenda.
- The Anti-Defamation League condemned the comment, calling it “textbook antisemitism” and stating that “there is no excuse for comparing a Jewish leader in the Senate to Adolf Hitler.”
U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, called the Senate’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer – the highest-ranking Jewish U.S. elected official – “Fuhrer,” a reference to the title used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Moreno, who was elected in November, made the comment to reporters outside the Senate chamber as members of his caucus struggled to agree on a path forward to try to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut agenda.
“Here’s the main thing you’ve got to understand. Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders,” Moreno said.
The German word Fuhrer is a political title meaning “leader” that is most associated with Hitler, who led his country into World War Two and was responsible for the murder of six million Jews.
Schumer has just had a book published titled “Antisemitism in America: A Warning.”
Asked about the comment, a Schumer spokesperson replied, “That’s textbook antisemitism, so we won’t comment on it.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement to Reuters that there was “no excuse for comparing a Jewish leader in the Senate to Adolf Hitler.”
Nazi analogies in politics, he added, “only serve to trivialize the Holocaust and the memory of the six million Jews who perished during World War 2. Moreover, describing a Jewish elected official this way is deeply despicable,” Greenblatt said.