Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Banter ‘Frozen’ Style

In the letter, Schwartz condemns Trump’s response, writing, “instead of acknowledging the obvious, he and his campaign used it as an opportunity to undermine the free media in the style of the most risky regimes in history”. The controversy had occurred after the presumptive Republican nominee tweeted an image of Clinton beside piles of money and the Star of David.

At the same time last night, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that they closed the book on the Clinton email investigation and won’t be pressing charges. Then Trump’s social media team hastily slapped a circle over the star and issued a Chewbacca defense-style explanation that involved the Microsoft Office Shapes tool and the premise that a sheriff’s badge “fit with the theme” of money and corruption.

He added, “In my opinion, Donald Trump is not a Jew hater”. The meme with the star was published beforehand on a neo-Nazi internet message board. “Donald Trump again plays to the white supremacists”, he tweeted. “I said, ‘Too bad, you should have left it up.’ I would have rather defended it, just leave it up, and say, ‘No, that’s not a Star of David”.

During a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Trump told supporters he wished his campaign didn’t delete the tweet.

He said the difference between him and the media who dismiss Trump is simple: “I know him and they don’t”. “This caricature that some want to paint as someone who has “allowed” or encouraged intolerance just doesn’t reflect the Donald Trump I know”. “Is this the “Star of David” also?”

Clinton’s campaign blasted the original tweet as a “blatantly anti-Semitic image”, Politico reported.

“These explanations are so facile, infantile in their blatant disregard for context or logic that I can only imagine them being delivered by someone doing so while grinning and winking”, she writes. He also sent a tweet with a picture of a coloring book for the animated film Frozen with a star on the cover claiming it was the same star.

Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a U.S.-based organization fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, said that Trump’s comparison with the Disney movie was ill-judged and inappropriate.

Trump told an OH audience on Wednesday that he regretted his campaign’s decision to scrub it from his account.

“My father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife”, Kushner said in a statement.