Mississippi Gov. to ‘JPost’: Trump will be great for Israel

US President-elect Donald Trump will be a great ally of Israel and will significantly change the tone of the US-Israel relationship, Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Bryant, leading a four-day trade mission from the Magnolia State to Israel, also counseled not getting overly concerned that white supremacists were gaining traction in the US as a result of Trump’s election, saying he was not “at all worried” about this.

“It is ridiculous,” said the two-term Republican governor, when asked whether he was worried that organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan in his state might feel emboldened by the Trump victory.

“The Ku Klux Klan in the South might be 100 people who are deranged, loners, people who can’t find their way in life and, like many people like that, are attracted to some strange organization,” he said.

 

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