Posted on 07/06/2016 7:04:28 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald J. Trump on Wednesday offered a defiant defense of his campaign’s decision to publish an image widely viewed as anti-Semitic — saying he regretted deleting it — and vigorously reaffirmed his praise of Saddam Hussein, the murderous Iraqi dictator.
In the span of 30 minutes, an often-shouting Mr. Trump breathed new life into a controversy that was sparked on Saturday by his posting of an image on his Twitter account of a six-pointed star next to a picture of Hillary Clinton, with money seeming to rain down in the background. The image was quickly, and broadly, criticized for invoking stereotypes of Jews. Mr. Trump deleted it two hours later, and replaced the star image with a circle.
“ ‘You shouldn’t have taken it down,’ ” Mr. Trump recalled telling one of his campaign workers. “I said, ‘Too bad, you should have left it up.’ I would have rather defended it.”
“That’s just a star,” Mr. Trump said repeatedly.
It was a striking display of self-sabotage from a presumptive presidential nominee and underscored the limitations of Mr. Trump’s scattershot approach during the Republican primaries — not to mention how difficult he often makes it for his campaign team to control him.
The rally in Cincinnati had been promoted by Mr. Trump’s team for two days as a chance for him to give a tryout to a potential running mate, former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Periodically, beginning midway through Mr. Trump’s speech, the crowd chanted Mr. Gingrich’s name, but Mr. Trump did not heed its wishes.
Mr. Trump had not discussed the Twitter message at length until Wednesday night, at his rally in Cincinnati, and his remarks seemed to clash with those of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew
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“Widely-viewed as anti-Semitic.” Pure Leftist propaganda.
This is only a “controversy” to the Trump haters.
This is 100% false. No such thing happened. Unbelievable.
Doubling down has worked just fine. Trump’s support is clearly not from overly sensitive Jews worried about opaque “star”, so there is no point in pandering. Just being honest, because I am not the biggest Trump fan out there.
ridiculous non issues.
Someone better alert Bill Gates and tell him to get rid of his Anti Semitic Microsoft Word
No one cares about this except CNN and the NYT
Lol, excellent!
Excellent article in the Observer by it’s publisher Jared Kushner who is married to Ivanka.
Jared talks about his family background how his grandparents got thru the holocaust some made it and some didn’t and he said Donald Trump is no anti semite...
Trump just tweeted a picture of the Frozen DVD..guess whats on it..a STAR, OMG Its a star of David, those darn Frozen people, such Anti Semites
As usual the NY Times puts a Hilleresquse spin on a speech. These guys need cranial surgery to remove the maggots munching on their brainstem.
I must have missed something. I thought he gave a pretty good speech tonight.
It’s BAIT to take him off of his “The system is RIGGED against honest people”-message.
WHY is he taking the bait..?
Elsa is Jewish?
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