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Here are 5 wild moments from Rudy Giuliani’s new off-the-wall and anti-Semitic interview

AlterNet logoIn a new interview with New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani gave disturbing, delusional, and at times deeply anti-Semitic comments.

Despite the fact that the former New York mayor’s conduct in Ukraine helped get Trump impeached, he is still carrying on with the self-destructive scheme. And he’s still carrying on with giving free-wheeling media interviews, it seems, even though there are signs he may be at severe legal risk himself.

Here are five key moments from Giuliani’s interview with Nuzzi:

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Anti-Defamation League Criticizess Trump’s Anti-Semitic Remarks

Donald Trump once again summoned anti-Semitic tropes when speaking to a Jewish organization over the weekend, telling the Israeli American Council that Jews “had no choice” but to vote for Trump in 2020 because his rival, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) had proposed a wealth tax on those worth more than $50 million.

“But you have to vote for me; you have no choice,” Trump told the group on Saturday, before using racist language to describe Warren.

“You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas,” he said. “You’re not going to vote for the wealth tax. Yeah, let’s take 100 percent of your wealth away.”

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