prospect.org: Donald Trump’s Star of David

11.7.16

Donald Trump’s Star of David: [prospect.org] As the world knows, Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton, with a sea of hundred dollar bills and the phrase “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” superimposed over the shape of a Star of David. The entire image was literally taken from a white-supremacist message board used by neo-Nazis. Two hours later, after a broad outcry, Trump’s campaign changed the star shape to a circle.

But on Wednesday, even more astonishingly, Trump criticized his own staff for altering the original and suggested that the image was an ordinary star, and pointing to other six-pointed stars on sheriffs’ badges and in advertisements. In an ad lib rant, he accused the media of racism for even suggesting that the image was anti-Semitic, ducking the fact that the identical image was lifted from a neo-fascist site. “They're racially profiling. Not us. Why do they bring this up?” Trump said. “These people are sick.”