An
organizer for a prominent anti-Donald Trump petition has contacted the FBI
after receiving a torrent of antisemitic abuse.
Andrew
Weinstein is the organizer of a letter
signed by 75 Republican politicians and party operatives urging RNC head
Reince Priebus to abandon Trump and start funneling cash to down ticket races
instead. “Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump’s losing presidential
campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to
immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the
entirety of the RNC’s available resources on preserving the GOP’s congressional
majorities,” they write.
But
because of Weinstein’s opposition to Trump, he was targeted for online abuse
and harassment. Many of the Trump supporters’ attacks fixated on his
traditionally Jewish surname. “It’s time to put the SMACK DOWN on these filthy
Jew rats!” wrote one white supremacist site.
The
abuse got bad enough that Weinstein, a former aide to House Speaker Newt
Gingrich, contacted the FBI. Still, he has a sense of humor about the ordeal:
“Apparently they didn’t realize that I’m pro-gay, pro-Jew, and pro-rat, so
their insults were not particularly effective,” he joked to Playbook.
