Trump campaign spokesman Dan Scavino said in a statement that the image in question was selected for being a sheriffs badge, not the Star of David, and Scavino chose to take down that tweet because he never wants to offend anyone. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee deleted that tweet by 11:19 a.m. and replaced the star with a circle in a subsequent missive. This would appear to be an acknowledgement of its offensiveness, but Trump and his campaign are denying this. “We got to get back to the issues that matter to the public”. Scavino’s statement said it was lifted from an “anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear”.
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Monday, Trump posted a tweet that some have interpreted as a possible indication that Ernst could be the pick. Trump also contributed close to $4 million himself.
– Donald Trump raised $26 million for his campaign in June, along with another $25 million in conjunction with the Republican party, a significant boost for a campaign that only recently stepped up fundraising efforts. On Sunday, Mic News reported that the meme was actually from a neo-Nazi web forum, called /pol/, which Mic described as “an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists”. He continued to face bipartisan criticism, including from House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., over his original tweet.
As Brzezinski read those tweets aloud, the morning’s panelists could be heard unsuccessfully trying to contain their laughter – or as the closed captioning on the MSNBC feed put it, “UNKNOWN LAUGHTER UNKNOWN LAUGHTER UNKNOWN LAUGHTER”. “Our campaign is leaner and more efficient, like our government should be”, Trump said at the time.
While Clinton and her allies have consistently said they seek to raise as much money as possible to help win the election, Trump has a shape-shifting approach to political fundraising. “No one who is anti-Semitic would welcome the marriage of their daughter to an Orthodox Jew”, he said, referring to Kushner.
This isn’t the first time the Trump campaign has gotten into trouble over a connection to white supremacists, is it? He would later tweet “I disavow” regarding Duke’s support and blamed his initial refusal on a faulty earpiece.
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Trump has long professed his support for Israel and his daughter converted to Judaism before her marriage. Did the campaign know the potential anti-Semitic message it carried? “A woman wrote an article that’s inaccurate”.
