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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points as he chats with the media after he arrived at the Trump International Golf Links at Balmedie, near Aberdeen, Scotland, on June 25.
WASHINGTON » Donald Trump’s tweet that featured Hillary Clinton and a six-pointed star atop a pile of money has also appeared on a white supremacist website.
Trump’s account on Saturday tweeted the so-called “meme” — then deleted it and replaced it substituting a circle for the star symbol that resembles the Jewish Star of David. The change came after a social media uproar about the star tweet’s potentially anti-Semitic implications.
The meme first appears to have hit the Internet on June 15, when it was posted by the Twitter user FishBoneHead1. The account, which described itself as belonging to a comedian, regularly tweeted out anti-Clinton and right-leaning messages and images.
The image also appeared on June 22, on /pol/, an active neo-Nazi Internet message board that features many anti-Semitic posts.
It remains unclear where Trump’s campaign obtained the image. A spokeswoman for the campaign did not immediately respond to questions about the original tweet or who was responsible for sending it out. Trump’s twitter account remained silent on the issue today.
The FishBoneHead1 account was deleted amid the uproar this afternoon. The person who operated the feed did not respond to a request for comment before it was deleted. The post itself was deleted from the /pol/ message board, but its existence was confirmed by The Associated Press through an internet search engine that combs internet archives.
The image’s appearance on /pol/ and FishBoneHead1’s twitter feed was first reported by the website mic.com.
Trump, who is running for president as a Republican, has repeatedly said that he would remain a staunch defender of Israel and last week shot down a question from a town hall attendee who questioned the U.S.’s defense of the Jewish state. His daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism and is raising her children Jewish.
Trump has been criticized in the past for repeatedly re-tweeting posts from white supremacists’ accounts and failing to immediately denounce the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. Trump has a loyal following on white supremacist message boards and has been endorsed by several prominent white nationalist leaders who have credited him for invigorating their cause. Among them are William Johnson, chair of the American Freedom Party, which ran pro-Trump robo-calls during the GOP primary.
Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, dismissed the controversy in an interview with CNN Sunday, accusing the media of trying to create something out of nothing.
The guy is an idiot. He truly is his worst enemy. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. Only idiots will follow him into the abyss.
Why moderation.
No surprise, after all is said and done, Trump will reveal that he has a tail, horns under his mop and under his coat a pitchfork!
Trump is actually a smart guy doing this all on purpose to dupe the public and bring down the GOP from top down and do us all a great service in the process. It’s similar to a WWE professional wrestler who maintains their villain personality even though they are a nice guy in private. Just shows how gullible the public is and how scary how people can be manipulated so easily.
Corey Lewandowski is right. The media and the anti-Trump mob is trying to create something out of nothing. The star looks exactly like the badges worn by most sheriffs in the USA. Does that now give the tweet anti-sheriff implications? We have become a nation of nut jobs who have nothing better to do than to look for or see evil in just about everything.
This anti-Hillary image was lifted from a white supremacist website, NOT from a website about sheriffs. It is the fifth time that Trump has re-tweeted messages from neo-nazi or white supremacist websites. It is disturbing enough that the Republican presumptive nominee seems to get much of his news from conspiracy theory websites; it is deeply repellent that he reposts what he finds on white nationalist and neo-nazi websites. The passing of Elie Wiesel would have been be an appropriate time for Trump to distance himself from the virulent strain of anti-Semitism that infects a small (one hopes) but very active fraction of his supporters. This recent anti-Hillary tweet, using a background of $100 bills and a Star of David, has provoked a well-deserved storm of protest. Of course, Hillary is not Jewish, and, as the Trump camp points out in its feeble defense, his daughter married a Jew; nevertheless, the latest tweet was a clear dog whistle to the KKK, to neo-nazis, to white supremacists, and to other anti-Semitic members of his base. The subtext of the tweet has nothing to do with sheriffs; it ties Hillary to the imagined demons that neo-nazis groups would eliminate – Jews in the Democratic party, Jews among urban areas, Jews in banking, Jews in government, and Jews in all of the neo-nazi’s fevered, one-world-government fantasies. Trump supporters barrage reporters they perceive as unfriendly to Trump (and whom they know or suspect are Jewish) with vile tweets and emails that identify them as (((Jewish))) by using 3 parentheses around their names. And they say that they are “awarding them a gold star,” not because they think the reporters would make good sheriffs, but in a clear reference to the stars that Nazis forced Jews to wear. In spite of the widespread coverage of these acts of hatred and bigotry, Trump has remained silent, as he did when he disingenuously claimed to know nothing about David Duke.
Nothing new here. Hillary for prison. Trump 16-0.
Give the guy some credit. And don’t count him out. America loves the Underdog.
Mr. Trump is going to lose in a landslide that will also, thankfully, put the Senate into Democratic control.
Thanks to all of Mr. Trump’s fellow white supremacists, racists and anti-semites for your support. What a gift you have delivered to Mr.s Clinton!
Hahahahahah…..Do you need your medication? Donald TRUMPED by Hill – historical landslide. Trump will need to hide under a tiny-tiny rock so he can cover his privates.
I’d hope you would use your eloquence to tell the World what a trusted presumptive nominee you support.
You support am anti-semite & racist, and despite that, you question the judgment of other people? Got it!
No The support is for Mr Trump not HiLIARy.
From where did you get your information that the image was lifted or re-tweeted from a white supremacist website? The story says it also appeared on a white supremacist website as well as other websites and it was unclear where Trump campaign obtained the image, so please do not make up stuff. I found it on CNN’s website. Does that make CNN a white supremacist website?
Mic News traced the meme and found that it had been used on /pol/ — a website reportedly frequented by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. The image has since been taken down, but an archived version is still available.
The offending image first appeared in a June 15 tweet by @FishBoneHead1, an account with fewer than 1,000 followers and a penchant for memes that mock Muslims, black Democrats and “cucks” — an alt-right term derived from the word “cuckold,” for people they deem insufficiently conservative. According to Anthony Smith, a reporter for the news site Mic, it was shared June 22 on a racist section of the 8Chan Web forum. Trump’s official Twitter account shared the image, with no hint of its origin, at 9:37 a.m. Saturday, July 2.
Yes, bsdetection, I can’t refute what you now are saying, but in your earlier post you said the Trump campaign lifted it from a white supremacist website, not that it might have been or could have been but that it was in fact lifted from a white supremacist website. You still have not provided anything to support that comment.
8Chan, the website that was Trump’s source for the Hillary image is currently celebrating the death of Elie Wiesel. Trump has twice previously re-tweeted images and comments from WhiteGenocideTM. There is a repulsive pattern here.
You can read into it anything you want. Trump is strongly pro-Israel, his daughter converted to Judaism many years ago, and he has three Jewish grandchildren. On Sunday, Trump noted the death of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights by tweeting: “On Saturday a great man, Elie Wiesel, passed away. The world is a better place because of him and his belief that good can triumph over evil!” What do you read into these things? Do you consider them a repulsive pattern? And where is your proof that 8Chan was Trump’s source? Why do you profess to know when no one else does?
Trump’s two sentence tweet about Elie Wiesel’s death came more than 24 hours after the announcement of Wiesel’s passing on the day that Trump re-tweeted a neo-nazi image of Hillary Clinton. The passing a someone of Wiesel’s stature deserves more than a tweet from someone running for one of the most important jobs in the world. During Trump’s 24 hour silence, he was the object of blistering criticism from both Republicans and Democrats who called for him to reject anti-Semitism. He has not rejected anti-Semitism or expressed any concern about the support he receives from white supremacist, neo-nazi, and white nationalist groups and websites.
OMG! your pants wetting nickers twist over a goofy image no one cares about (yet you see as a cosmic communication) and the psycho interpretation of Trump’s response to Weisel’s death (notable, but a figure 90% of Americans never heard of) is deranged.
Yes, bsdetection, it is shameful that Trump was not at Wiesel bedside when he passed so that he could have been the first of many to tweet about his death. So now we are at the point of using time clocks to determine one’s sincerity. With regard to the six-pointed star in the image you claim Trump re-tweeted from a neo-Nazi website, a comment for which you still have not provided proof, I do not see it as a Star of David. As I said in a previous comment, it looks to me like the badges worn by most sheriffs. The interpretation I give to it is that it was intended to represent sheriff badges, the message being “the law is coming to get you, Hillary.” I also said you can read into the image anything you want. That is what I read into it. So what makes my read wrong and yours right?
All these Hilliarists are trying to deflect from the obvious.
Why not save all the typing and just say “Trump de devil”. Your dog whistle has dog whistles.
Trump didn’t go to a website about sheriffs and copy a star and then go to another website and copy a picture of Hillary and then to another website and grab a picture of $100 bills and then combine them. He went to a neo-nazi website and grabbed the complete image and reposted it. No one has discovered that image appearing anywhere between when it appeared on the neo-nazi website and when Trump re-tweeted it. When a six-pointed star appears on a neo-nazi website means, they’re not talking about sheriffs. The people at whom this message is aimed know exactly what Trump is saying, and so should you. They also know that his denials are lies. This isn’t the first time that Trump has re-tweeted posts from neo-nazi websites. He re-tweeted wildly inflated statistics about whites being victims of murder by blacks, and they came directly from a neo-nazi website.
Donald is doing just fine so don’t get so excited. He is 16-0 to date and we are only in the early innings. The opponent may still be disqualified.
It will be interesting when the POTUS, the VPOTUS, and the presumptive POTUS nominee all show up on AF1 where they are to campaign together. Twenty limousines, secret service, FBI, local law enforcement. They’ll no doubt take turns trash talkingTrump.
What else can they do. They can’t be talking about their accomplishments. Be careful though, America is for the underdog.
Trump is not stupid, he’ll play his cards close to his vest since Hillary is playing the women card. Deal me in, yet takes money from governments that oppress women.
One thing is clear. This will be an interesting race. What you see is what you get from Trump. What you see from Hilliary you don’t know. What I want to know is where was the POTUS on 9/11/2012? Why didn’t Hilliary contact him? Was he hiding behind a pantsuit and why?
All you Democrats please answer this question.
It’s actually easy to see evil in just about everything because Mr. Trump has made it clear that he’s evil.
You support a racist and a neo-Nazi, so why are you downplaying that? That’s your choice. That’s the man you support. You’re his base.
Congratulations.
Republicans aren’t about race based discrimination,if they have any pre-existing bias against anyone it would be the poor people.
In 1981, Lee Atwater, an adviser to U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee explained the Republican Southern Strategy this way, “You start out in 1954 by saying, “N____r, n____r, n____r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n____r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N____r, n____r.”” Nothing has changed.
Actually, Republicans are all about race based discrimination. Nothing has changed for decades, except that Trump is more open about it.
LBJ used a lot of “colorful” terms for Blacks too, but you seem to ignore that.
What’s n___r? Is that a bad word that you can’t say?
Well it’s him or Hilliary. Don’t let it bother you.
Your backyard must be a mess. Try cleaning it up and not worry about Trump. 66% believe Hilliary is dishonest. 2101 emails on her server were classified. Her IT staffer invokes the 5th 125 times. It goes on and on.
So what? I’m sure AP stories have shown up on BLM and ISIS sites too.
Of course we know the AP backs both those organizations.
The MSM is stuck in the “Damage Control” mode again. Do we need to remind them to “Watch Out” it doesn’t turn out to be a Takata airbag,which will blow up in their faces. And y’all can thank to Billy Bob for that! So the MSM are saying “We gotta save Sweet Hillary,we have to save her!Oh No!……. And then Bill steps in it. Haaaaaaaaa! Good one Bill.
So who’s in denial here folks ? The MSM Desperados? Trying to grasp something out of thin air and making it into this huge story? Like the KKK fiasco? lol. …….nice try,no cigar!
Well ? It’s not working!
Could it be? Because his poll numbers are closing in on Hillary?? You bet!Did you see the Quinnipiac and the Rasmussen polls last week? Rub,rub and while your’e at it? Throw some Hawaiian salt on the wound! See the numbers yourself.Now,today we have many MORE polls showing Donald’s numbers rising,he’s just 5 points away from “Sweet Hillary” folks. Get ready for a new Sheriff in town and sheriff will be Donald J.Trump.IMUA
They’ll throw everything they have including the kitchen sink. If Donald gets elected he’ll not only get the launch codes but the keys to the FBI evidence room and nothing better be missing. He’ll also instruct the new Attorney General to conduct background checks of all anti -Trump activists for possible ties to neo nazi, pro radical Islam groups.
You forgot to add the IRS.heh,heh,heh.
The image has four parts; a large caption saying “History Made,” a photo of Hillary, a stack of money, and a star shaped like a sheriff’s badge with the inscription “Most corrupt politician ever.” That is it. Will someone please tell me what makes it anti-Semitic or racist.