CNN anchor Jake Tapper called out Louis Farrakhan on Twitter Wednesday for making bigoted remarks against Jewish people and white people in a speech over the weekend.
On Sunday, Rev. Farrakhan gave his Saviours’ Day 2018 Address, attended by thousands including one of the co-founders of the Women’s March.https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
Shortly after 1:10:50 in the video Farrakhan proclaims that “the powerful Jews are my enemy.” https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
At 2:57:00 he begins approvingly quoting some of the anti-Semitic comments made by Rev. Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office.https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
At 2:59:00 Farrakhan approvingly cites Nixon and Graham attacking Jews’ “grip on the media” and Hollywood and “how the Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
At 3:15, Farrakhan calls Jews ‘the mother and father of apartheid, the Jews.”https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
Assailing Keith Ellison, at 3:21 Farrakhan says, “let me tell you something, when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”
https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
at 3;49: “White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan …has pulled the cover off the eyes of that Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.” https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
This is who Farrakhan is. It’s why folks are legitimately so offended when they found out that then-Sen. Obama and members of the CBC met with him in 2005. https://t.co/QdGpWuGdZ6
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
The @ADL_National has lots more on comments Farrakhan has made over the years. https://t.co/Z0QxInjwMB
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
The difference between Farrakhan and some members of the alt-reich whose heinous bigotry has received a lot of attention this past year: Farrakhan has a much larger following and elected officials meet with him openly.
-fin-— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
As Tapper points out, news broke in January that Barack Obama met with Farrakhan and posed for a photo with him. (RELATED: Bombshell Photo Emerges Of Obama Smiling With Black Nationalist Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan)
Farrakhan, a leader in the Nation of Islam religion, has a long history of incendiary quotes against Jewish people, gay people, and white people. (RELATED: Seven Louis Farrakhan Quotes On Jews, Gays And White People)