For people who haven’t heard, Saturday Trump sent out a tweet of an image of Hillary Clinton superimposed over a bunch of money and a Star of David with the message “the most corrupt candidate ever”. He would very quickly delete the tweet and then replace it with the same image with a photoshopped circle where the Star of David was.
He’d also send out another tweet squealing the “dishonest media” which he said was trying to depict what’s obviously “a Sherif’s star” as a Star of David.
Now leaving aside the fact that Sheriff’s stars are almost always six pointed and even when they’re not they usually have circles at the edge of each point, is anyone other than the army of imbeciles who make up his base going to buy his story? What, did he imply that she was the puppet of “Big sheriffs”? Will this be the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back and causes the Republicans to finally dump him? Or do people think that this is a story that will soon be forgotten just because it happened over Fourth of July weekend when people were concentrating on other things?
Here’s a link.
For anyone, particularly non-Americans who wonder what Sheriff’s stars normally look like.
And yes, you’ll notice in the NBC news link where he got the image from.
The army of imbeciles who make up his base don’t buy the remade story-they embrace the original story, and look at the remake as “putting one over on the libruls.”
If this was a single incident the plausable explanation would fly, but this is Trump, who already has a history of using sources for several of his tweets that are trully racist or neo nazi in nature. When will Trump be at last be asked to repudiate his sorry sources in public? For less than that Obama was hounded out of his original church only because one preacher (not the church) had peculiar notions about 9/11.
But there is something else now: the correction that Trump posted creates more questions that should be asked, even if the creator of the original image was from an anti semite and racist source with what rights did Trump change the image?
Does he know the original poster and he got permission from him to change it? (yes, the company you keep is still a big problem Mr. Trump)
Or does he not care and copyright law is something that Trump also disregards when convenient just like many other laws that he claims that he will be able to ignore or change if he becomes president?
An innocent tweet that the libruhlz are just making much ado of nothing about. The image that originated at a white supremacist site. The innocent image that Trump felt necessary to withdraw and then re-post with a different symbol instead of the “sheriff’s star”.
Him telling us it is a sheriff’s star is just like him saying he didn’t know who David Duke is; such absurdity serves as a mischievous wink to his fans and raised middle finger to everyone else’s intelligence.
If he wasn’t going out of his way to insult, he would’ve simply said the star wasn’t used symbolically at all. Sometimes a star is just an inert shape, just like any geometric design. But for some reason, coming up with such a sensible explanation is too much to ask of him.
Someone on Trump’s staff thought that the overall poster was a good one to play, probably not even paying attention to the fact that the charge overlaid a six pointed star.
When the Star of David connection was pointed out, they hastily substituted a circle.
Now, Trump’s “sheriff’s star” claim is classic Trump: clearly a lie that makes no sense that he (or one of his staffers) posted rather than simply letting the original furor die down.
Trump keeps getting caught allowing anti-semites (and racists and homophobes and others) provide him with material, (since he is seriously under funded and cannot afford to buy quality creations), although he is, himself, too involved with the Donald to actually hold racist or homophobic opinions. He has made no serious efforts to promote a racist, sexist, or homophobic opinion and the only religion he has actually gone after is Islam. I doubt that he even realizes that so much of what he spews actually crosses the lines to be offensive. He simply lacks the awareness needed to understand just how much of an offensive buffoon he is.
Making a big deal about this is not going to matter. The bigots among his fans are going to applaud the original and consider changes just something “necessary” to submit to political correctness. The slightly less bigoted fans are going to see this as an inadvertent mistake and continue to support him. His opponents are not going to score any points with the issue, since they already despise him with good cause.
The fact is that the image came from a white-supremacist/anti-semitic site where it certainly wasn’t a sherrif’s star. Whether he actually took it from there or from a secondary source is not immediately evident. Wonder what Ivanka thinks of this.
Yes, this will surely be the star (pun intended) that breaks the camel’s back. Yep, this is it. All the other ones weren’t, but this one will do it. Yessiree, Bob. No doubt about it. He’s toast. In fact, wasn’t there a poll recently that showed he was in " near irreversible collapse"? Well, there you have it!
I also don’t think it is, but the bail of hay is getting bigger. FWIW I also did react at first like you, but then I realized, that many shrugging it off is what Trump continues to count with on in this race.
It will not break him, but it is important to demand to the media to stop giving free publicity to the guy and to demand more forcibly to repudiate his bad companions, just like it was in past contests.
There is absolutely no question in my mind that Trump is an anti-Semite. He can try to explain away each individual instance, but they all add up to some really ugly bigotry. As others have said, this particular instance makes no difference. Those who despise him are going to continue to despise him. And anti-Semitism, along with other forms of bigotry, is a plus, not a minus, to his supporters.
I think this kind of nonsense is more likely to push undecided voters toward Trump than away from him. I’d wager 99% of undecideds who saw that poster just thought “Meh. Trump’s just calling Hillary a crook again. Nothing new there.” They probably wouldn’t even notice the star, and even if they did, even if they took the time to count how many points it had and made the connection with the Star of David, they’d probably just chalk it up to co-incidence. The one thing they wouldn’t do is interpret it as a dog-whistle insinuation that Hillary is a Sneaky Joooo or whatever. Firstly because she isn’t Jewish so it doesn’t make any sense; secondly because, in the same way that the star doesn’t look like a sheriff’s badge it also doesn’t look much like a Star of David; and thirdly because that kind of lunatic uncharitability is the sole province of hardcore anti-Trumpers. It bores them at best and irritates them at worst. Either way, it doesn’t generate any sympathy for Clinton.
Actually, he 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 a plain star!”
If you think the sheriff’s star thing is bullshit, what’s wrong with the “plain star” explanation?
In and of itself, correct. But the simple fact that his team’s go-to for material includes extreme neo-Nazi White supremacist message boards and the absurdity of the lie of saying that that star featured on such a board was a sheriff’s star, is additive to how badly he must be beat.
Will this further rev up his resentful White base more than they otherwise are? Nah. Jew-hating is not the big thing right now compared to Muslim and Hispanic bashing. Jew-hatng used to be big in fundamentalist circles, now they are more likely to be fans, and stronger Israel backers than a large number of American Jews.
Does it further eliminate any doubt that his explicit pander is the a White supremacist mindset in the minds of everyone else? Yes. It is yet another part of a very consistent pattern. I do think it revs up the already anti-Trump side just a bit more.
And that swingable undecided group, unsure who they dislike more, Clinton or Trump, maybe 20ish% of registered voters? Calling him out on the graphics origins on a neo-Nazi hate group message board, where its intent was certainly not a sheriff’s or “plain” star (oy), are more likely turned off by the blatant appeal to White supremacists than attracted to it. Implicit bias they got plenty of but having to endorse explicit racist appeals? That they don’t want to do.
The racist and antisemite account were the image originated was closed, I had the chance to see it before closing. Funny as the owner described, unless you are Liberal, Politically Correct, Feminist, Democrat.
It was just like the words described and more; but as happens many times, when everybody begins to shine light into places like those, the roaches run away.
Tithonus, if some undecideds just ignore the kind of reprehensible trash Trump is getting his talking points from then there are not the kind of people one would like to get votes from.
I don’t see the connection of anti-semiticism and Hillary since she isn’t Jewish. Maybe people who secretly harbor those feelings see it that way. A guy like Trump whose daughter converted to Judaism and is such a hard core New Yorker is one of the last guys who would be anti-semitic.
On the other hand, Hillary said,“f***ing Jew bastard,” to Paul Fray who was Bill Clinton’s former campaign manager.
I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt that it was a plain star because frankly a Star of David requires the overlapping triangles to keep their outline. But given that it was first produced by an overt white pride character, I can’t extend the benefit of the doubt any longer. I do think, like tomndebb, that the Trump staffer probably thought it was a normal star. Frankly, I don’t think Trump would want any anti-semetic “dog whistles” as it dulls his anti-Muslim/pro-Israel credentials.
