Jewish Republican compared Trump ‘Haitians eating cats’ claim to ‘targeting Jews’, book says

Max Miller of Ohio, appointed by Trump to a Holocaust committee, was privately infuriated' by repeated racist lies

A Jewish Republican congressman whom Donald Trump appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council compared Trump and his running mate JD Vance's extremist attacks on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, during last year's presidential campaign to the target[ing]' of Jews", a new book reports.

After Trump endured a difficult debate against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on 10 September - attracting widespread ridicule for his claim that Haitian migrants were eating people's pets - the former president was determined to campaign in Springfield", the Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt writes.