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 Hillary Clinton’s campaign said on Monday that an image posted by Donald J. Trump on Twitter over the weekend that showed a photo of Mrs. Clinton against a backdrop of $100 bills and a Star of David was “blatantly anti-Semitic.” 
 
 The post accused Mrs. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, of being the “most corrupt candidate ever.” But critics seized on the episode as the latest example of a longtime pattern of racially charged remarks by Mr. Trump, saying the post was meant to exploit stereotypes against Jewish people. 
 
 In a rebuke on Tuesday, the House speaker, Paul Ryan, said in a radio interview with Charlie Sykes on WTMJ in Milwaukee, according to The Hill website: “Look, anti-Semitic images, they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign. Candidates should know that.” Mr. Ryan added, “I really believe he’s got to clean up how his new media works.” 
 
 The backlash has been swift enough to cause Mr. Trump to do something relatively out of character: He deleted the original post, later sharing an image showing Mrs. Clinton next to a circle instead of the six-point star. 
 
 The news website Mic traced the first image, posted by Mr. Trump on Saturday, to a message board containing anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi imagery, and to Twitter accounts that circulated the images. 
 
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 Sarah Bard, the Clinton campaign’s director of Jewish outreach, said in a statement: “Donald Trump’s use of a blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s a part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern. Now, not only won’t he apologize for it, he’s peddling lies and blaming others.” 
 
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 Though he replaced the image (one observer noted that the tips of the star were still visible in the new post), Mr. Trump took to Twitter on Monday to defend his original decision to post the image with a star. 
 
 “Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff’s Star, or plain star!” he wrote. 
 
 In a statement released on Monday night, Mr. Trump dismissed Mrs. Clinton’s campaign’s criticism as “false” and “ridiculous” and repeated his claim that the image was a “basic star often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior.” 
 
 But some social media users have disputed Mr. Trump’s suggestion, with one person asking why would he delete a posting if he truly believed it was a sheriff’s star. 
 
 Mr. Trump’s supporters have insisted that the image never contained a Star of David and that people were being too sensitive or politically correct. Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager, appeared on Sunday on CNN and called the reaction “political correctness run amok.” 
 
 Other Trump supporters said on Twitter that the news media was exploiting a nonissue. They said they supported the theory that those accusing Mr. Trump of anti-Semitism were creating a fictional subtext for the image. 
 
 “The only reason the Trump sheriff star tweet is controversial is because CNN makes it that way,” wrote one supporter of Mr. Trump. 
 
 But white nationalists, including the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, weighed in with praise for the tweet: 
 
 The Anti-Defamation League has long condemned Mr. Trump’s remarks on immigrants as hate speech and stereotyping. It called on him in 2015 to stop “fomenting hatred.” 
 
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 On Monday, Jonathan Greenblatt, the group’s chief executive, said in an interview that Mr. Trump’s handling of the controversy over the posting did not pass muster. “The most appropriate response to the criticisms would be to address them head-on, to apologize, and to articulate firmly and forcefully that bigotry of any sort has no place in this campaign, and that hate has nothing to do with making America great again,” Mr. Greenblatt said. 
 
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 Mr. Trump seemed eager on Monday to move beyond the episode. He posted a flurry of messages about his potential choices for a vice-presidential running mate: “The only people who are not interested in being the V.P. pick are the people who have not been asked!” 
 
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 The meme Trump tweeted prominently featured the Star of David, a holy symbol of the Jewish religion that Nazis attempted to pervert by forcing Jews over the age of 6 to sew it onto their clothing during Hitler's reign. 
 
 Emblazoned onto the Star of David in Trump's meme are the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" 
 
 The star lies atop a giant pile of money. 
 
 Source: Donald Trump's Twitter (since deleted) 
 
 Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump's Twitter account wasn't the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on 8chan's /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump's rhetoric — as early as June 22, over a week before Trump's team tweeted it. 
 
 Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a "time capsule of the internet" that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed. 
 
 Of note is the file name of the photo, HillHistory.jpg, potentially a nod to the Neo-Nazi code for "HH," or "Heil Hitler," which the alt-right is fond of hiding in plain sight. 
 
 The watermark on the lower-left corner of the image leads to a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics. 
 
 Other examples of images tweeted by this account include anti-Semitic images of journalists, violent propaganda about Muslims and refugees and racist images of Clinton and black Democrats. 
 
 Following this report, the account from which the watermarked Star of David meme comes began deleting some of its more inflammatory images. The account itself no longer exists as of Sunday afternoon. 
 
 And here is that image of the Jewish journalist with the enlarged nose as it originally appeared on @FishBoneHead1's Twitter: 
 
 Dan Scavino, the Trump Campaign's social media director, issued a statement late Monday saying "the social media graphic used this weekend was not created by the campaign nor was it sourced from an anti-Semitic site. It was lifted from an anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear." 
 
 @DanScavino, Trump's director of social media, releases this statement saying that he lifted image from Twitter:pic.twitter.com/QHr90a5N3J 
 
 But rather than laying this controversy to bed, Scavino's explanation for where the Trump team "lifted" the image begs further questioning. When Trump's team sources memes, images and other media from Twitter, the team has a longstanding pattern of always attributing the account from which they found it, no matter how big or small that account may be. 
 
 So faithfully has the Trump account adhered to this practice in the past that it once attributed an image to "WhiteGenocideTM," a user whose Twitter is rife with white nationalist slogans and neo-Nazi imagery. 
 
 "@WhiteGenocideTM: @realDonaldTrump Poor Jeb. I could've sworn I saw him outside Trump Tower the other day! pic.twitter.com/e5uLRubqla" 
 
 Here are several other examples of Trump's image attribution practice in action. 
 
 "@w4djt: "Under a Trump presidency, America will make brilliant new trade deals!" -Donald Trump #dtmag pic.twitter.com/NpYI9i4iSG" 
 
 "@brazosboys: Hillary read "sigh" off the Teleprompter, She's so fake she has to be told how to feel: https://youtu.be/iYUQtxXZPsk @FoxNews 
 
 For contrast, here, again, is the screenshot of the deleted Trump tweet containing the offending of image of Hillary and the Star of David. 
 
 In this particular instance, not only does the Trump account fail to attribute the @FishboneHead1 account — or mention any other Twitter account, for that matter — but whoever superimposed the "Fox News Poll" banner over the lower-left corner of the image completely obscured @FishboneHead1's watermark, thereby further obfuscating the origin of the image. 
 
 If, as Scavino claims, Trump's team really did find the controversial meme from Twitter — and not from /pol/, or another digital repository for racist, xenophobic and violent imagery like it — it is unclear why the Trump campaign would choose this particular instance not to attribute the account from which they found it, rupturing from their longstanding attribution practice just when the campaign would seem to need it most. 
 
 Mic previously reported white supremacists rally on the internet to track and expose what they believe to be a vast anti-white conspiracy, centuries old, in which Jews have paid off politicians and infiltrated the media to undermine Western society from the top down. The Clinton meme Trump tweeted — which previously appeared on perhaps the biggest bastion of the anti-Semitic alt-right — has brought that same hateful paranoia into the mainstream. 
 
 One relationship of particular importance to their "anti-White conspiracy" is that between Jewish reporters and Hillary Clinton, whom they believe to be working in tandem to undermine the Western world, preventing nations like the U.S. from becoming more like their vision of utopia — a nation with racial purity among its core values. 
 
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 On Saturday, Trump deleted his original tweet of the meme and in its place uploaded an alteration that replaces the Star of David with a circle. 
 
 Crooked Hillary -- Makes History! #ImWithYou #AmericaFirstpic.twitter.com/PKQhYhMmIX 
 
 Scavino, who runs the Twitter for a presidential candidate who has called Mexicans drug dealers, criminals and rapists and who has repeatedly called for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, said that he deleted the image because "as the Social Media Director for the campaign, [he] would never offend anyone." 
 
 As lawyer and writer William Hodges pointed out, at least two of the points of the original star are still visible from below the circle on the new image on Trump's twitter. 
 
 He just put the circle on top of the Star of David. You can still see its points.pic.twitter.com/PjNSp38T3X 
 
 In November, Trump retweeted a meme perpetuating the racist lie that black people committed more violent crimes against white people than any other race. That image was found to have originated from a white supremacist's account as well. 
 
 Trump tweeted Monday denying that the star in the photo was a Star of David. 
 
 Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff's Star, or plain star! 
 
 His claim that the star in the offending image is a Sheriff's Star echoes the statement from former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who argued the previous day on CNN, where Lewandowski now works, that "this is a simple star... the same star that sheriff's departments across the country use all over the place to represent law enforcement." 
 
 Though Trump's tweet on Monday explaining the star used almost the exact same wording as Lewandowski's statement on CNN Sunday, the two currently have no official professional relationship. The Trump campaign ousted Lewandowski as its campaign manager in June. He joined CNN as a political commentator just three days later. 
 
 Later on Monday, the Trump team released yet another denial of the offending image's anti-Semitism, this time arguing that Clinton's team is "trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband." 
 
 @realDonaldTrump statement on @HillaryClinton Star of David meme. Original @mic story here: https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.6Cc5ELBZ4 ...pic.twitter.com/Z0KvKr9MWc 
 
 Hilary Clinton's campaign on Monday responded to the meme, calling it "a blatantly anti-Semetic image from racist websites," and adding that it's "part of a pattern that should give voters major cause for concern." 
 
 @HillaryClinton statement on that Trump tweet from Saturday which featured, then didn't, a six point star:pic.twitter.com/E5Com0Ezam 
 
 In March, Trump asked his supporters in Florida to raise their right hands and pledge their loyalty to him. 
 
 Donald Trump makes members of his Orlando crowd raise their right hands and swear to vote in the primary.pic.twitter.com/EVenRilJrV 
 
 Its vile historical parallel to the Nazi rallies of World War II was as obvious as it was terrifying. 
 
 Let me make this clear to Trump fans: This photo in Florida guarantees he will never be president.pic.twitter.com/dUXh4Bdy22 
 
 Mic has reached out to the Trump campaign to ask why it chose this instance to break routine by not crediting the offending Star of David image to the Twitter account from which they claim to have found it. Mic also inquired as to whether anyone on the campaign altered the image as it had previously appeared on both /pol/ and Twitter in order to obscure @FishboneHead1's watermark in the lower-left corner of the meme. We will update when we hear back. 
 
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 Using Twitter again, Trump said: “Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff’s Star, or plain star!” 
 
 Later, he put out a statement on his website blaming Clinton for “false attacks” and said that linking the star with antisemitism was “ridiculous”. 
 
 “Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband,” the statement said. 
 
 The argument that the star in the original tweet, which had six points and was superimposed over an image of $100 bills, was not a star of David was first used by Trump’s fired campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, in an appearance as a CNN pundit on Sunday. 
 
 
 
 The image in Trump’s original tweet was traced by the news site Mic to a white supremacist message board. Trump’s tweet was deleted on Saturday and replaced by a similar image featuring a circle rather than a star. 
 
 Clinton, whom Trump’s tweets labelled “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”, has not commented. On Monday her campaign’s director of Jewish outreach, Sarah Bard, issued a statement. 
 
 “Not only won’t he apologize for it,” Bard said, “he’s peddling lies and blaming others. Trump should be condemning hate, not offering more campaign behavior and rhetoric that engages extremists. The president should be someone who brings Americans together, not someone who sends signals and offers policies of division.” 
 
 
 
 On Sunday, the Libertarian candidate for president, Gary Johnson, told CNN in a wide-ranging conversation: “He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president but it doesn’t seem to affect him. The stuff he’s saying is just incendiary. It’s racist.” 
 
 On Monday, the chief executive the Anti-Defamation League condemned Trump’s tweet as further evidence of extremist sympathies within the Trump campaign. 
 
 
 
 “We’ve been troubled by the tone of this campaign for the past six months,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, also speaking to CNN. 
 
 “The first time something like this happens, like the quote from [in fact attributed to] Mussolini, it’s called a mistake. The second time it happens, like you re-tweet from a white supremacist Twitter account, that’s sloppy. But we’re now at the sixth or seventh time the Trump campaign has invoked bigotry or racism. It’s a pattern that’s perplexing, troubling and wrong.” 
 
 At minimum, said Greenblatt, the deleted tweet raised questions about why a national presidential campaign could be looking at racist websites or antisemitic sections of online sources and using such searches to find content to share with the public. 
 
 
 
 Greenblatt said the tweet was a dog-whistle to neo-Nazis that did not belong in the campaign. 
 
 “These bigoted and prejudicial ideas don’t belong in the conversation,” Greenblatt said. “Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP candidate and we’d like to see him speak out with the same energy he brings to the campaign to call out white supremacists. 
 
 “We want to him to make it clear that bigotry and antisemitism has nothing to do with making America great again.” 
 
 Bard echoed Greenblatt, saying in her statement: “Donald Trump’s use of a blatantly antisemitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s a part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern.” 
 
 A Trump surrogate, Boris Epshteyn, appeared on CNN. He said the ADL was a “notoriously left-leaning Jewish organisation”, adding that a lot of “conservative-leaning Jews … disagreed with the ADL on a lot of its stances”. 
 
 “I will not stand for the idea that a tweet like this was antisemitism,” Epshteyn said. “It was a mistake and it was taken down. End of discussion.” 
 
 On Monday, Dan Scavino, the Trump campaign’s social media director, said the star was not sourced from an antisemitic website, but “lifted from an anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear.” 
 
 Scavino said: “The sheriff’s badge – which is available under Microsoft’s “shapes” - fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it. 
 
 “As the Social Media Director for the campaign, I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image.” 
 
 This not the first time Trump has been linked to antisemitic or white supremacist views. In February, he was asked repeatedly about the Ku Klux Klan and its notorious former grand wizard, David Duke, and refused to immediately disavow Duke’s expressions of enthusiasm for his campaign. When he did disavow Duke, he failed to articulate why the Klan’s white nationalism was wrong. 
 
 Trump’s inconsistency over instances of alleged antisemitism is underlined by his own family ties – his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married the real estate developer and publisher Jared Kushner in 2009. He is said to be a key adviser to the Trump campaign. 
 
 Trump has also reiterated his support for Israel in several statements and speeches. The prominent Republican donor Sheldon Adelson has proclaimed that Trump is definitely pro-Israel, reportedly vowing to give $100m or more to the Trump campaign. 
 
 On Sunday, Trump tweeted a statement on the death, at 87, of the Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel. He wrote: “On Saturday a great man, Elie Wiesel, passed away. The world is a better place because of him and his belief that good can triumph over evil!” 
 
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 He also recently condemned the murder of a man who was reportedly killed by a Palestinian gunman while driving with three children. 
 
 “I strongly condemn this attack and call upon the Palestinian leadership to completely end this barbaric behavior,” he said in a statement. “I also call upon President Obama to recognise and condemn each and every terrorist attack against Israeli citizens. This cannot become the ‘new normal’. It has to end.” 
 
 The latest incident may be more accurately attributed to the Trump campaign’s capacity to bring attention on itself even when it would be advantageous to remain silent. 
 
 Trump tweeted and deleted the post on the same day Hillary Clinton was interviewed by FBI agents for three and a half hours about her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, and as controversy continued over Bill Clinton’s private meeting with attorney general Loretta Lynch.
– With just over four months to go until Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in battle over the shape of a star. In a statement issued Monday, the Clinton campaign's director of Jewish outreach slammed the Trump campaign's use of a Star of David in an anti-Clinton image as "blatantly anti-Semitic," reports the New York Times, which notes that Mic traced the image to a message board used by white supremacists. Trump, however, tweeted: "Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff's Star, or plain star." Dan Scavino, Trump's social media director, said the image had been "lifted from an anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear." Trump later issued a statement on his website saying the star is used by "sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior" and that Clinton "is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband." Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wasn't buying the "sheriff's badge" line, the Guardian reports. He told CNN on Monday that the Trump campaign has had a troubling tone for months. The first couple of times Trump did things like retweet images from white supremacists could be called mistakes, he said. "But we're now at the sixth or seventh time the Trump campaign has invoked bigotry or racism. It's a pattern that’s perplexing, troubling, and wrong."