Trump Foreign Policy Advisor Accused Of Anti-Semitism

One of Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisors has been accused of making anti-Semitic statements, including scoffing at the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and boasting that he ousted Jews from the Defense Department.

Joseph Schmitz, who served as the Defense Department inspector general between April 2002 and September 2005, has been accused in a complaint before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) by Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community. In Meyer’s complaint file, he stated, “His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’” citing former top Pentagon official John Crane as the source and witness to the remarks. According to Meyer, Crane said Schmitz denied that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Meyer wrote, “In his final days, he allegedly lectured Mr. Crane on the details of concentration camps and how the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews.”