The anti-Semitic allegations have also become part of another “Schmitz” case.
David Tenenbaum, an Army engineer at the Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) in Warren, Michigan, is now citing the allegations in a letter this week to Acting Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine as new evidence that current and former Pentagon officials helped perpetrate an anti-Semitic culture within the military that left him vulnerable.
“The anti-Semitic environment began under a prior Inspector General, Mr. Joseph Schmitz,” the letter from Tenenbaum’s lawyer Mayer Morganroth of Birmingham, Mich., states.
Trump’s campaign did not return multiple calls and emails over a week about Schmitz.
Tenenbaum, who is alleging officials in the Pentagon inspector general’s office contributed to anti-Semitism against him, was targeted as an Israeli spy by the Army, which launched a criminal investigation of him.
Bridget Serchak, a Pentagon inspector general’s office spokeswoman, declined to comment on the case. Her office concluded in 2008 that Tenenbaum had been singled out for “unusual and unwelcome scrutiny because of his faith” as an Orthodox Jew.
His treatment from 1992 to 1997, the inspector general’s report concluded, amounted to discrimination.
Tenenbaum got his security clearance back and it was even increased to top secret. He was never charged with any wrongdoing. In his letter this week to Pentagon authorities, he asked the inspector general to review his case because he said the office never intervened on his behalf.
“... In light of the information recently obtained, (we) believe your office has and continues to engage in discriminatory behavior,” his lawyer wrote.
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….because some of my bestest friends are of the Jewish “persuasion”….
“I do not recall ever even hearing of any ‘allegations of anti-Semitism against [me],’ which would be preposterously false and defamatory because, among other reason(s), I am quite proud of the Jewish heritage of my wife of 38 years,” he wrote in an email.
Later in a phone interview, he said his wife was not a practicing Jew but “ethnically Jewish” because her maternal grandmother was a Jew.
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Trump himself was accused of being anti-Semitic when he told the Republican Jewish Coalition in December: “I’m a negotiator, like you folks.”
Trump also tweeted an image of what appeared to be a Star of David surrounded by cash.
Schmitz’s father, the late Republican Congressman John Schmitz who represented California, was a fervent anti-Communist and drew criticism in 1981 for remarks about Jews, including his press release that called the audience at abortion hearings “a sea of hard, Jewish and (arguably) female faces."
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As a sitting congressman, Schmitz refused to comment after he wrote the foreword and endorsed the publication of a book that contained widely-condemned anti-Semitic propaganda and was written by a longtime member of the John Birch society. John G. Schmitz was also a member of the organization, but his membership was revoked for holding views still too far right, even for the very conservative group.
When the senior Schmitz died in 2001, the publication arm of the Institute For Historical Review, which is dedicated to publishing Holocaust denialists, wrote in an obituary that he was “a good friend” of the institute.
*In another weird twist, Joseph Schmitz’s sister is the notorious pedophile Mary Kay Schmitz Letourneau Fualuu, the Seattle area married teacher who seduced a 12 year old student, served time in prison and was convicted of rape, had several children with him, and then finally married him.
One really has to wonder why Donald Trump surrounds himself with such despicable and socially unacceptable advisors and confidantes….or does one already know the answer to that question?
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”-Maya Angelou