Trump can’t let go of weekend tweet, stay focused on Clinton

Neither Trump nor his campaign apologized for the tweet but deleted the original post and uploaded an edited graphic with a circle instead of the six-pointed star.

Donald Trump insisted again on Wednesday night that his negative tweet about Hillary Clinton did not feature a Star of David atop a pile of cash.

The Trump campaign blamed the ensuing controversy on slanted media coverage, calling the outrage “ridiculous” and denying that the star image was taken from a white supremacist message board.

He shared this story, Kushner wrote, because he found it important “that people understand where I’m coming from when I report that I know the difference between actual, risky intolerance versus these labels that get tossed around in an effort to score political points”.

Gingrich, an outspoken supporter of Israel, echoed Trump’s newest defense of the tweet: that a six-pointed star is featured on a book about the popular Disney movie “Frozen”. In reality, Trump’s hijacked Star of David was lifted from a racist, anti-Semitic image that appeared on a neo-Nazi, white supremacist website last month. “Dishonest media! #Frozen”, he wrote. Critics said the star bore a resemblance to the Star of David, a Jewish religious symbol, and linked it with corruption.

His social media director elaborated, claiming he selected the imagery because, “The sheriff’s badge – which is available under Microsoft’s “shapes” – fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary”. They’re racially profiling. Not us.

Schwartz has never met Kushner but said she hoped her letter would compel him as a Trump adviser to take action. “Why do they bring this up?”

“The message came across loud and clear to people like David Duke and the insane Holocaust deniers in my Twitter mentions”, she said.

Trump said that it was just “a regular star or maybe a sheriff’s star”. “I hate Saddam Hussein, but he was damn good at killing terrorists”.

“I think for Mr. Trump, unfortunately, it’s too late”. “He’s smart, he’s tough, he gets it”.

The businessman also plugged the candidacy of a fellow Republican facing a tough re-election fight, urging his supporters at the top of his speech and in closing to “go out and vote for Rob Portman”, while slamming the Ohio senator’s Democratic rival, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.