Newt Gingrich defends Trump’s Star of David tweet

Donald Trump kept alive a controversy over a campaign tweet featuring apparently anti-Semitic imagery by saying his staff “shouldn’t have taken it down” and tweeting a picture featuring popular Disney characters to demonstrate that the media are “dishonest”.

Gingrich is heavily rumored to be on the shortlist to be Trump’s running mate. Joni Ernst has indicated that she is not interested in the position. As a result, many were outraged at the real estate mogul for using a symbol associated with Jewish identity.

Former Senator Marco Rubio, who ran against Trump for the party nomination, was among the first to rule himself out, and so was Indian-American governor Nikki Haley.

Gingrich said he has been vetted for the job, but he has yet to decide whether to partner with Trump were he to be asked.

“You’re doing a major disservice to the people who are actually afflicted by that plight”. And to MSNBC he said, “His best running mate, by the way, would be Ivanka”.

Even if Trump didn’t know where the image he tweeted came from, he must know now.

Trump also appeared at a fundraiser for Christie in May, at the New Jersey National Guard Armory in Lawrenceville, that retired his presidential campaign debt.

His shortlist (or wish-list), therefore, is dominated by lawmakers such as Corker, Gingrich and Ernst followed by administrators such as Christie and Pence, both serving governors.

But the current House Speaker, Paul Ryan, who is also Republican, criticized the tweet earlier this week and warned that anti-Semitic images “have no place in a presidential campaign”. The image of Gingrich disappears from the screen as a narrator chimes in, “That was then, but then corporate fossil fuel companies gave Gingrich and the GOP millions of dollars”.

He added the British vote to leave the European Union is part of “a worldwide movement toward really being angry at the establishment. really feeling that government has failed and I think Trump is part of that worldwide movement”.

We’ve chronicled the many hilarious tweets that comedians have sent out at Trump’s expense for months now, but at this point we can’t keep up.