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Posted: 2016-07-14T04:35:10Z | Updated: 2016-07-14T13:53:56Z Michele Bachmann Says Jews Will Be Free To Say 'Merry Christmas' When Donald Trump Is President | HuffPost

Michele Bachmann Says Jews Will Be Free To Say 'Merry Christmas' When Donald Trump Is President

The "War on Christmas" is starting early this year.
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Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Donald Trump supports religious liberty, like when "his Jews" would say "Merry Christmas" to him.
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Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) returned to the spotlight this week with an unusual definition of “religious liberty.” Apparently, it’s a land where people of all faiths can come together and say “Merry Christmas.”

Over the weekend, Bachmann told right-wing radio host Jan Markell that Donald Trump “gets and understands religious liberty.” To show how much Trump “gets and understands” it, Bachmann shared an anecdote she said came from a meeting with the reality-TV-star-turned-GOP-presidential-candidate.   

“He even said, ‘I don’t understand, when I was growing up, everybody said Merry Christmas. Even my Jews would say Merry Christmas,’” she explained. “’New York City, there are a lot of Jews, and they would even say Merry Christmas. Why can’t we even say Merry Christmas anymore?’” 

The comments were posted online by Right Wing Watch.  

Bachmann also said Trump had “1950s sensibilities” and “1950s common sense,” and warned that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would bring “certain destruction” and “catastrophic decline” and a “godless United States that will walk into certain catastrophe.” 

 

(h/t Raw Story )

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar ,rampant xenophobe , racist , misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims 1.6 billion members of an entire religion from entering the U.S.

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