Trump used another Star of David meme while campaigning
It’s happening again.
The Donald Trump campaign Sunday pretended to know nothing about using an anti-Hillary Clinton ad that featured a Star of David, which came from a fringe right-wing website and somehow made its way into the billionaire businessman’s presidential campaign.
Trump, who has taken to holding up giant signs at his rallies, brandished one last week claiming to show countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation before receiving weapon deals from the State Department.
The graphic appears to have emerged from Before It’s News, a website peddling conspiracy theories about politics, science and aliens. The site claims to publish “the news that the mainstream media ignores.”
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But the original image featured a Star of David on a dollar bill next to Clinton’s face — as clearly seen last month when David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and devout Trump supporter, tweeted it with the hashtags “#CrookedHillary” and “#TrumpWasRight.”
BuzzFeed News reporter Nathaniel Meyersohn first noted the image’s alarming origins.
When Trump held up the sign Thursday at a Sunrise, Florida, rally, the Star of David was mysteriously missing from the graphic.
This comes one month after Trump tweeted an anti-Clinton meme, featuring a Star of David over a pile money, which emerged from a neo-Nazi message board. Trump deleted the image and replaced it with a Photoshopped version covering the star with a circle. He and his surrogates then insisted the image only showed a “sheriff’s star.”
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The campaign kept the controversy brewing for nearly a week, but never explained how the image jumped from a neo-Nazi post to Trump’s Twitter feed. He never offered an apology or an explanation for why he rushed to delete his original tweet, either.
Likewise, Trump campaign senior communications adviser Jason Miller played dumb Sunday when pressed about the image on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
Trump last month tweeted a meme from a neo-Nazi website (left) featuring a Star of David over a pile of money. He quickly replaced it with a Photoshopped version covering the star with a circle.
Miller claimed he hadn’t seen the chart, but said Trump’s signs are “usually produced with our policy department.” He did not answer questions about who checks the information and then sends it to the Republican presidential nominee.
The Trump campaign did not return messages from the Daily News. Trump himself did not comment on the image Sunday, even during a prolonged Twitter rant about the “dishonest media.”
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