Team Clinton: Image in Trump tweet 'blatantly anti-Semitic'

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: The Hill

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is attacking Donald Trump for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's response to a tweet that critics say included anti-Semitic imagery.

“Donald Trump’s use of blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern,” Sara Bard, the campaign’s director for Jewish outreach, said in a statement on Monday.
“Now, not only won’t he apologize for it, he’s peddling lies and blaming others,” she added.

Trump earlier in the day blamed “dishonest media” for the controversy, saying outlets are portraying a “Sheriff’s Star” or a “plain star” as the Star of David in a tweet he sent, then changed and later deleted over the weekend.

Trump sparked a wave of backlash Saturday for tweeting an image accusing Clinton of being "corrupt" with a six-pointed star. The image was reportedly created by white supremacists.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/286442-clinton-camp-trump-peddling-lies-and-blaming-others-for

[forest444]

1. It's so crass, I'm actually glad it happened b/c it shows them up for who they are.

This was the Kinsley moment we were waiting for.

[Lord Magus]

2. So why does Trump keep going to neo-Nazi websites & collecting images to tweet out?

I think we all know why.

[forest444]

3. That is the real question here isn't it.

When Ivana Trump came out with the claim last February that The Donald kept an anthology of Hitler speeches at his beside, I didn't believe it. The old maxim about the woman scorned, I thought.

I now realize she was telling the truth.

[NewJeffCT]

6. yes

why does he keep retweeting this stuff from neo nazi groups? He's done it at least 3-4 other times, I think.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. 75 times

He's actually retweeted stuff that originated with white supremacists 75 times now. And he's said and tweeted worse than this. Maybe the media will finally start asking down tough questions because this guy is obviously a white supremacist.

[NewJeffCT]

5. That's really the bigger question

I mean, unless I did it by accident in the past, I have never, ever been to any neo-nazi, white supremacist, hate group or similar website. You would actually need to make an effort to go to one, and then you would forward the image, which would be going way past the "I just clicked on it by accident" stage.

[riversedge]

4. donald is saying it was a Sheriff's star or plain star.............

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 11h11 hours ago

Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff's Star, or plain star!
5,575 retweets 16,805 likes

Peter Daou
‏@peterdaou

Look at this, @realDonaldTrump







@peterdaou @puppymnkey @realDonaldTrump Sheriffs? Gawd, he's such a dangerous stupid man, isn't he?



HillarysGotThis2016 ‏@d_boysen 58m58 minutes ago

HillarysGotThis2016 Retweeted Peter Daou

Sheriff's badges have knobby balls on the points. Complete fail on your lame excuse, @realDonaldTrump

[Old Union Guy]

8. Plausible deniability in action.

via PBS

[rug]

9. "You hear that, Barney?"

[Roy Rolling]

12. I don't know which is worse

Trump lifting a neoNazi meme or a social media head who doesn't know the significance and historical use of the six-pointed star in the Holocaust.

Two fuckin' imbeciles.

[Mendocino]

13. Andy says:

"Barney you know that Hitler guy wasn't so bad, he gave sheriff jobs to over 6 million people".

[Gothmog]

10. Trump's base are the true nut cases/racists in the GOP base

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Don't you just know in your deepest heart of hearts that

Joe the Plumber is going to emerge and rescue Trump one of these days?