The since-deleted tweet featured a six-pointed star
An image Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that criticized Hillary Clinton and sparked backlash after it featured a message critics said was in the shape of a Star of David had previously appeared on a message board where racist and anti-Semitic messages are often posted.
The original image appears to have first surfaced over than a week ago on 8chan’s /pol/ board, a website that typically draws neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists, Mic first reported.
NBC:
An image of Hillary Clinton that was widely criticized as anti-Semitic after it was tweeted by Donald Trump, the Republican party's presumptive nominee for president, appears to have originated two weeks ago on a Twitter account devoted to bigoted memes.
Trump tweeted the graphic on Saturday attacking Clinton in an image that included what appears to be a Jewish Star of David layered over $100 bills. The tweet calls Clinton "the most corrupt candidate ever." Painting Jews as corrupt money-grubbers out to secretly control the government has been a well worn anti-Semitic trope since long before World War II.
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...the Trump campaign has refused to answer numerous requests for comment or provide any answers regarding the origin of the tweet, who inside the campaign found it and where and why Trump chose to disseminate it to his more than nine million followers.
Within hours of the tweet on Saturday, Trump tweeted the image a second time but the six-pointed star was replaced with a circle. The original was then deleted without explanation. The genesis of the image was not known until the website mic.com reported Sunday that the six-point star meme was originally posted June 15 by a user with the handle @FishBoneHead1. The account owner's bio reads: "Comedian: Probably offend you if you are Liberal, Politically Correct, Feminist, Democrat or Piers Morgan."
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This is not the first time Trump has been forced to disavow or distance himself from anti-Semitic or white supremacist connections. In January, Trump retweeted a photo from an apparent neo-Nazi supporter's account, which included anti-Semitic imagery and quotes from Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler's closest aides.
Additionally, Trump retweeted from the account, @WhiteGenocideTM, less than a month later. That tweet has since been deleted.
In late February, Trump faced swift backlash after failing to immediately disavow former KKK grand master David Duke during an interview with CNN.
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Trump has been accused of knowingly whipping up racist sentiment among his supporters. He denies it but declines to explain how anti-Semitic memes keeping making their way into his own tweets.
"We are outraged to see that his campaign is sourcing material like this offensive image form white supremacist websites and online sources," said Todd Gutnick, communications director with the Anti-Defamation League.
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The ADL...set up a task force in recent weeks to examine attacks on social media aimed at Jewish journalists. According to the ADL, attacks by white supremacists and other anti-Semites have particularly targeted journalists who "have been critical of presidential candidate Donald Trump or his family."
Washington Post:
The candidate has mocked a disabled newspaper reporter, referred to undocumented immigrants from Mexico as “rapists” and recently pointed to a black man in the crowd at one of his rallies and called him “my African American.”
Trump has been accused of knowingly whipping up racist sentiment among his supporters. He denies it but declines to explain how anti-Semitic memes keeping making their way into his own tweets.
"We are outraged to see that his campaign is sourcing material like this offensive image form white supremacist websites and online sources," said Todd Gutnick, communications director with the Anti-Defamation League.
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The ADL...set up a task force in recent weeks to examine attacks on social media aimed at Jewish journalists. According to the ADL, attacks by white supremacists and other anti-Semites have particularly targeted journalists who "have been critical of presidential candidate Donald Trump or his family."
Washington Post:
The candidate has mocked a disabled newspaper reporter, referred to undocumented immigrants from Mexico as “rapists” and recently pointed to a black man in the crowd at one of his rallies and called him “my African American.”
