Trump, who faced pushback after posting a graphic of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on a backdrop of money with a shape similar to the Star of David, took to Twitter late Wednesday to ask why a “Frozen” book featuring a similar symbol hasn’t drawn criticism.
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The Trump tweet caused an immediate uproar, with the Anti-Defamation League pointing out its bigoted anti-Semitic roots. “You should’ve left it up.’ I would rather have defended it, just leave it up and say, ‘No, that’s not a Star of David, that’s just a star'”.
Then, during a rally in OH, he talked extensively about the star, saying that he regretted the fact that his team took it down and replaced it with an image of a circle. Kushner’s response, however, seemed unlikely to ease the controversy over Donald Trump’s weekend tweet, which the candidate replaced shortly afterward with another image covering up the star with a circle.
Jared Kushner – who is married to Ivanka Trump and is a key player in Trump’s presidential operation – wrote that Trump had been held to an unfair standard in an op-ed article published Wednesday in the New York Observer, which Kushner owns.
On Monday, Dan Scavino, a Trump social media staffer took the blame for the tweet.
US Weekly reported that another Twitter user added, “FYI: that frozen star thing that trump tweeted out he ALSO got from a white supremacist Twitter feed”.
Later on Wednesday night Trump tweeted a photo of the cover of a “Frozen” sticker book with a red six-pointed star and the words “With 50 stickers” on the cover. They’re racially profiling. Not us. “It’s just a corrupt and very dishonest media doing that”. “Why do they bring this up?” “Where is the outrage for this Disney book? But I can tell you, in one form or another, Newt Gingrich is going to be involved with our government, that I can tell you”, Trump said.
But Kushner pushed back by saying that Trump is “and incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism”.
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“And I’m not saying anything, and I’m not telling you it’s Newt or anything”.
