Muslim voters who helped elect President-elect Trump due to their anger over Israel’s offensive in Gaza have described many of his Cabinet choices as “pro-war”, according to a report.
Some of Trump’s early Cabinet appointees have been staunchly pro-Israel, including: New York Representative Elise Stefanik, who will become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has long been a vocal supporter of Israel’s war. Against Hamas.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, another Zionist stalwart, will also become ambassador to Israel.
“We are deeply disappointed,” Rexhinaldo Nazarco, executive director of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Network (AMEEN), told Reuters.
“It seems like this administration is completely filled with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people, which is a failure of President Trump in the pro-peace and anti-war movement.”
Rabiul Chaudhry, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump, said, “Trump won because of us and we are not happy with his secretary of state selection and others. “
Trump did historic work during the 2024 presidential campaign lead among Muslim votersEspecially in the battleground state of Michigan.
In Dearborn, the state’s largest Muslim city, Trump received 43% of the vote compared to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 36%.
President Biden’s support for Israel drew community anger. Representative Rashida Tlaib, who was condemned by his colleagues For the invocation or destruction of Israel, categorically refused to support Harris in the campaign.
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