“Now, not only won’t he apologize for it, he’s peddling lies and blaming others.”
Way to go Donald. You managed to take over the news again in a bad way, and started another huge crap storm. The tweet you sent was fleeced from a known Neo-Nazi White Supremacy site, and denying that obvious facts makes you look even worse. Now you look more and more like a white supremacy Neo-Nazi sympathizer. Good going, Donald.
Then again, The Donald has a history of retweeting White Supremacy/Neo Nazi memes and tweets, he did so 75 times:
His Racism Is No Accident: Trump Has Retweeted White Supremacists 75 Times
Hillary’s team has called out Donald Trump for his tweeting of an obvious Neo Nazi graphic in a tweet, then lied about it and tried to blame others:
Clinton Camp Calls Donald Trump Out for Peddling Lies and Blaming Others
"Now, not only won't he apologize for it, he's peddling lies and blaming others." The Hillary for America Director of Jewish Outreach also pointed out what a president should be doing and it's the opposite of what Trump is doing.
Hillary for America’s Director of Jewish Outreach Sarah Bard slammed presumptive Republican 2016 nominee Donald Trump in a statement, calling him out for lying and blaming others when he was busted using an anti-Semite image gleaned from a neo-Nazi website.
“Donald Trump’s use of a blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s a part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern,” Bard wrote.
“Now, not only won’t he apologize for it, he’s peddling lies and blaming others.”
Bard pointed out what a president should be doing and it’s the opposite of what Trump is doing, “Trump should be condemning hate, not offering more campaign behavior and rhetoric that engages extremists. The president should be someone who brings Americans together, not someone who sends signals and offers policies of division.”
NBC News:
Donald Trump's 'Star of David' Tweet About Hillary Clinton Posted Weeks Earlier on Racist Feed
An image of Hillary Clinton that was widely criticized as anti-Semitic after it was tweeted by Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president, appears to have originated two weeks ago on a Twitter account devoted to bigoted memes.
Trump tweeted the graphic on Saturday attacking Clinton in an image that included what appears to be a Jewish Star of David layered over $100 bills. The tweet calls Clinton "the most corrupt candidate ever." Painting Jews as corrupt money-grubbers out to secretly control the government has been a well-worn anti-Semitic trope since long before World War II.
Instead of admitting that somebody goofed and swiped this from a Neo Nazi website, Trump decided to deny that it WAS taken from a Neo Nazi site and that everybody is wrong:
Trump Celebrates The 4th Of July Third Reich Style By Defending Neo-Nazis
Donald Trump is spending his 4th of July defending his campaign's use of anti-Semitic neo-Nazi imagery, as the Republican Party has gone from Stars and Stripes to Stars of David.
Trump tweeted:
The problem with Trump’s cover story is that the image Trump tweeted came from a neo-Nazi message board, and neo-Nazis aren’t known for tweeting sheriff’s stars.
Here is the original post containing the image:
As was reported by NewsMic, the image first appeared on a known White Supremacy message board.
Donald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists
Donald Trump tweeted a meme Saturday that used dog-whistle anti-Semitism to announce that his political rival, "Crooked Hillary," had "made history."
The meme Trump tweeted prominently featured the Star of David, a holy symbol of the Jewish religion that Nazis attempted to pervert by forcing Jews over the age of 6 to sew it onto their clothing during Hitler's reign.
Emblazoned onto the Star of David in Trump's meme are the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!"
Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump's Twitter account wasn't the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump's rhetoric — as early as June 22, over a week before Trump's team tweeted it.
Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the Archive.is, a "time capsule of the internet" that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed.
Of note is the file name of the photo, HillHistory.jpg, potentially a nod to the Neo-Nazi code for "HH," or "Heil Hitler," which the alt-right is fond of hiding in plain sight.
The watermark on the lower-left corner of the image leads to a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics.
The dates are clear, the evidence is obvious, so the case is an easy one. Yet, Trump decided to lie about it and claim that it wasn’t a “Star of David” at all. Why? The image that appeared on the Neo Nazi site on 6/22/2016 is IDENTICAL to the image Trump tweeted. The wording, everything. Even the placement of the red star. This is as open and shut case as you can possibly have. Trump’s team got the image off that Neo Nazi site, where it orignated. End of story.
What does Trump do? He denies that the image has any White Supremacy relation at all, that the star in the picture is a Sheriff’s star instead:
A Sheriff’s star? This came directly from a White Supremacy Neo Nazi site, Donald. They use the Star of David over there, not a Sheriff’s star. Sheesh.
Keith Olbermann tweeted back:
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@realJeffreyLord
Dear Moron,
THIS is a sheriff's star. Small globes on the points. Trump's Star of David had none
So, the tweet was a repost of an image that appeared on a Neo Nazi site on 6/22/2016, so it is obviously using the anti-semitic depiction of the Star of David, but Trump denies it all and claims that it depicts a Sheriff’s star and does not explain why the tweet was deleted (if it isn’t anit-semitic in nature and just depicts something else.) Also, no word on why that exact image appeared on the White Supremacy site, that EXACT SAME IMAGE, on 6/22/2016.
So, this now has started a “top of the news” firestorm Trump has on his hands:
CNN:
Donald Trump's 'Star of David' tweet controversy, explained
Fortune Magazine:
Trump Denies His Anti-Hillary Tweet Was Anti-Semitic
TIME:
Hillary Clinton Campaign Slams Donald Trump for ‘Blatantly Anti-Semitic’ Tweet
Huffington Post:
Trump Claims Star Of David Picture Isn’t Anti-Semitic
The Jerusalem Post:
Was Trump's 'Star of David' a 'Sheriff's star'?
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Calls Donald Trump’s Star of David Tweet Anti-Semitic
Slate:
Trump Blames “Dishonest Media” for Sparking Controversy Over “Sheriff’s Star”
CNET:
Trump's Star of David tweet inspired by supremacist site, report says
NY Times:
Donald Trump’s Star of David Tweet Came From a Fringe Website, a Report Says
BBC News:
US election: Trump 'Star of David tweet from far-right group'
Politico:
Trump: Tweet showed 'a Sheriff's Star,' not Star of David
FoxNews:
Trump blames media for controversy over Clinton, star tweet
USA TODAY:
Trump blames media for dust-up over six-pointed star image
The Hill:
Anti-Defamation League blasts Trump's Star of David tweet