On “The Daily Show” Tuesday night, Trevor Noah broke down the blatant anti-Semitism of Donald Trump’s Star of David tweet.
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The watermark on the lower-left corner of the image leads to a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics. The process could take as long as years to sort itself out, but as the scandal surrounding the Bachmann 2012 presidential campaign demonstrated, the law will eventually catch up to those who engage in criminal activity.
Ryan said Tuesday that he really thinks Trump “has got to clean this up.My understanding is this is (done) by staff – not by he himself”.
Trump said Wednesday at a rally in Cincinnati that it was just “a regular star or maybe a sheriff’s star” and that he wished his campaign had not deleted the image.
Facing pressure over a controversial Donald Trump tweet, the presumptive Republican nominee’s Jewish son-in-law defended the candidate as “an incredibly loving and tolerant person” in an open letter Wednesday.
The Big Showdown Is Coming: After July, both Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton will nearly certainly be their parties’ official nominees, with the clock ticking toward November.
“Nobody understands the economy like I do and no one, especially not Crooked Hillary Clinton, will do more for the economy than I will”, he said. He gave another $3.8 million in recent weeks, the campaign said. To give you a sense of just how awesome that is, I as mere junior senator never take any of my personal devices to any country – not even to Canada, much less to adversarial countries. But it’s far from the first time Trump’s been accused of coziness with white supremacists — on Twitter and elsewhere. Still, if the months since then are any indication, Trump isn’t showing much hesitancy to send tweets that many observers find offensive, and many of his supporters say they find refreshingly authentic.
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It is possible that the Trump campaign is incompetent, but given the candidate’s history of dodging taxes, and his refusal to release his own personal tax returns, the odds are that Donald Trump is trying to pull a fast one over by playing fast and loose with both campaign finance and tax laws. “Because, Mr. Kushner, you are allowing this”, wrote Dana Schwartz. “Candidates should know that”. Look at those tweets I got again, the ones calling me out for my Jewish last name, insulting my nose, evoking the holocaust, and tell me I’m being too sensitive.
