“He is too close to Trump, and everyone who is close to him can be a target,” the motivational speaker Sami Steigmann told JNS.
Sami Steigmann, a Holocaust survivor who has spoken to thousands of students over the years, believes that media reports accusing the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk of performing a Nazi salute at an inauguration celebration mischaracterize the facts.
“It was not a Nazi salute,” Steigmann told JNS. “Give me a break. He suddenly became a Nazi? No.”
“He just raised his hand, and he was very excited that Trump has won the presidency and that he had a part in helping him,” Steigmann, 85, who lives in Manhattan, told JNS. “It’s not a big deal. But there are people that want to make it into a big deal. He is not an antisemite.”