Trump also went off on critics of his since-deleted tweet during a campaign rally in OH, repeatedly telling the crowd that “it’s a star”, not specifically a Star of David.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has faced days of pointed criticism for a Twitter attack on Hillary Clinton that used an image that looked like the Star of David and appeared to deploy anti-Semitic stereotypes.
But Trump is having none of it, and in an impassioned speech on Wednesday night (July 6) he criticized his staff for deleting the tweet shortly after it went online last Saturday, saying it was “just a star” and those who saw anything else are “racially profiling”. “Where is the outrage for this Disney book?” the Republican candidate wrote on his twitter, in a rare full sentence. “When they told me the Star of David, I said: ‘You have got to be kidding.’ How sick are they?”
Mr Trump railed against “the dishonest media” for stirring controversy over the image and claimed it was not offensive toward Jewish people. “Because why are they bringing this up?”
In the latest installment to the long-running trash fire that is the USA presidential election, Donald Trump published a tweet that accused Disney’s Frozen of being anti-semetic.
“All of a sudden it turned out to be in the minds of the press, only because it could have been a sheriff’s star, it could have been a regular star”, Trump said, according to The Hill. Is this the Star of David also? “Why do they bring it up?” “Dishonest media!” Trump tweeted.
“‘You shouldn’t have taken it down, ‘” he said, as if he were speaking to Dan Scavino, the senior aide who posted the tweet.
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