Donald Trump deleted a tweet attacking Hilary Clinton after getting under fire for evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes with a graphic, including dollar bills and a six-pointed star.
Donald Trump deleted the original tweet containing words "most corrupt candidate ever," written inside a red six-pointed star, which evokes the Jewish Star of David. It's was placed beside an image of Hilary Clinton.
Before he could even the delete the tweet, the post immediately gained a lot of backlash online.
"A Star of David, a pile of cash, and suggestions of corruption. Donald Trump again plays to the white supremacists," said Erick Erickson, a leading anti-Trump conservative.
Erickson quickly added, "For all the people saying 'It's not a Star of David,' why then did Trump tweet it again after replacing it with a circle?"
Some people even described the post as "disgusting" and "insensitive."
Abe Foxman, the director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League said that there is a larger concern in the Jewish community about Trump's reluctant to condemn anti-Semitism and bigotry by some of his supporters.
The Trump campaign did not respond for any comments about the decision to use a six-pointed star and whether they were concerned about the potential effect on using such image.
Trump has been a strong supporter of Israel, vowing in March that "the days of threatening Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one" of his presidency.
A day before the controversial tweet, he also reacted saying that he was "shocked by the heinous murder" of a 13-year-old Israeli-American Jew who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist.
His daughter Ivanka is also an observant Jew, having converted to Judaism before her marriage to businessman Jared Kushner.
"Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States and we are going to protect them 100% -- 100%. It's our true friend over there," Trump said while rebuking a man at a campaign rally on Thursday.
Trump initially refused to disavow the support of David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard who continues to advertise Jewish conspiracy theories.
Trump has also previously retweeted tweets from apparent neo-Nazi supporters, including one from the account "@WhiteGenocideTM," which also tweeted numerous quotes from Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
Source: CNN
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