ADL Urges Donald Trump to Reconsider "America First" in …
simmons | June 2, 2016
New York, NY, April 28, 2016 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged presidential candidate Donald Trump to reconsider his use of the phrase America First as a slogan describing his approach to foreign affairs, citing its anti-Semitic use in the months before Pearl Harbor by a group of prominent Americans seeking to keep the nation out of World War II. The most noteworthy leader of the America First Committee was Charles Lindbergh, who sympathized with the Nazis and whose rhetoric was characterized by anti-Semitism and offensive stereotypes, including assertions that Jews posed a threat to the U.S
