Laurene Powell Jobs is using her bought and paid-for propagandists to smear Trump again. 

You have to give her an 'A' for effort--The Atlantic sent around an issue of the magazine to every lawmaker in America before the election trotting out a parade of horribles that would inevitably wash over America should the Bad Orange Man win this November, and she refuses to let up despite being humiliated by the electorate. 

It's nice to be a billionaire who can buy and sell intellectuals with pocket change, even if you can't afford to buy the Oval Office. 

Foer’s case is that a president who just tapped Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, Matthew Whitaker, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Huckabee to work in his administration is assembling the most anti-Semitic cabinet “in decades.” I was skeptical!

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) November 22, 2024

The latest slander comes via a ridiculous article by Franklin Foer. Foer has quite an impressive bio, if you are into intellectuals who preen incessantly while spewing nonsense. 

Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future and World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. He was previously the editor of The New Republic and a staff writer at Slate and New York magazine. His other books include How Soccer Explains the World and Jewish Jocks (co-edited with Marc Tracy), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Foer has been given the Sisyphean task of asserting that Trump is assembling a Cabinet filled with antisemites. He amasses mountains of data which, if you squint hard, unfocus your eyes, and disconnect your frontal lobes from the rest of your brain might convince you. 

f all the promises, from quixotic to horrifying, that Donald Trump has made about the next four years, the one that seems least likely to be fulfilled is his vow to “defeat anti-Semitism.” He has nominated a slew of cranks who have dabbled in the oldest conspiracy theory of them all, a belief that Jews control the world.

Over the past decade or so, pernicious lies about Jewish villainy have drifted into the mainstream of American life. That’s a fact Trump acknowledges when he talks about his plans to “defend Jewish citizens in America.” But he tends to focus on the problem at college campuses, which constitutes an incomplete diagnosis. It allows Trump to ignore his own complicity in unleashing the worst wave of anti-Jewish sentiment in generations.

In his first administration, Trump provided rhetorical cover for supporters who blared hateful sentiments—those “very fine people,” Kanye West, and others. This time, he’s placing them in the line of presidential succession. If confirmed, this crew would comprise the highest-ranking collection of White House anti-Semites in generations.

You can see that Foer has not gotten the memo that hoaxes against Trump no longer work. Or should I say Powell Jobs hasn't gotten the memo? The "fine people" hoax is so often debunked that you have to be a Bluesky denizen or a supporter of The Lincoln Project to swallow that vile brew of malicious lies still. I don't want to accuse Foer of being a liar by implying he believes it; he could simply be deluded, schizophrenic, or have been lobotomized. 

Who knows? I bet on his being a liar, but I could be wrong. 

As Democrats embrace conspiracy theories that Israel is sending out soldiers to mow down women and children, openly conducting a genocide, and embrace the UNRWA and by extension, Hamas, Foer hopes that people will embrace the idea that the most pro-Israel president we have ever had is a secret anti-Semite. 

That's why he pushed the Abraham Accords, put his Orthodox Jew son-in-law in charge of creating them, clearly loves his Orthodox Jewish daughter, Ivanka, and beams over his Jewish children. 

"Israelis are exhilarated about the results of the election ... enormous support for President Trump..." @CarolineGlick pic.twitter.com/SPa1GsWlE1

— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) November 20, 2024

Foer's faux-concern about Trump's Cabinet picks is just another angle being taken by the desperate left looking for a new angle from wich to attack Trump. Clearly, their direct attacks haven't worked, so the new line is that Trump is empowering weird Christian nationalists who secretly harbor a deep and abiding hatred for Jews. 

One has to wonder whether Trump's critics secretly long for Trump and the MAGA movement to come out and start oppressing them, given that the current hobby of the left is engaging in oppression Olympics, where the winners get to claim the top spot on the intersectional pyramid. 

"I am the most oppressed!" "No, I am!"

Perhaps people like Foer (or Powell Jobs) are tired of having to "do the work" and need a good dose of faux oppression to claim their time in the sun and a shot at the Gold Medal of oppression. 

I have a love/hate relationship with The Atlantic. When it is good, it can be very, very good. But when it is bad, it is appallingly ridiculous and offensive. Like Jeffrey Goldberg.