ed note–2 things worth noting here–
A sheriff’s badge typically looks like this–
–A golden, 6 pointed star where the points are blunted with globes, so the notion that Trump tweeted this with only a Sheriff’s badge in mind is highly unlikely. Equally unlikely is the possibility that his advisors would not have warned him that such an image was sure to result in the typical hysterics and honking on the part of you-know-who.
Which of course leads us to conclude that the more likely explanation as to why he did it was rooted in the interests of initiating that all-too-predictable judaic noise so that he could then make fools of them and thus in the process weaken the effectiveness of the attacks that they level at him on a daily basis.
Huffington Post
Donald Trump tweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image Saturday morning, causing an immediate backlash online and further confirming the Republican nominee is willing to sink to depths well beyond usual, acceptable bounds of politics.
The tweet, posted at roughly 8:30 a.m., featured a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star — the Jewish Star of David — next to her face.
“Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” the star read.
This is not a dog whistle. It’s not subtle. It is anti-Semitic imagery aimed at a candidate who isn’t even Jewish.
Clinton’s campaign could not immediately be reached for comment.
The irony, of course, is that Trump has Jewish relatives. His daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, who is Jewish himself. Their kids are Jewish too. Trump even has a number of Jewish backers.
This hasn’t exactly mellowed his instinct to give telling winks to people who hate Jews. Trump has retweeted support from white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the past and he’s notably refrained from condemning the anti-Semitic mob of his supporters that has attacked Jewish reporters online.
Usually, he’s responded to criticism in the past by playing dumb, as if he’s unaware of what he’s doing. And that same pattern held true — somewhat — on Saturday morning. Moments after tweeting out the Star of David image, he put out a second image with the same language, but with a red circle instead of a star. The first tweet remained up for some time, however, before eventually being taken down.
Ari Fleischer, a Jewish Republican who served as press secretary to former President George W. Bush, criticized the Trump campaign for the tweet.
“I suspect this was a case of stupidity and not malice, but no matter what, his campaign keeps making foolish mistakes,” he said. “It would be nice to make it through a 3-day weekend without his campaign hurting itself.”
As for Clinton’s faith, she’s a Methodist. Trump has attacked her for that in the past too. At a meeting of evangelical conservatives last month, he suggested there was little in the public record about her religion and that she might not actually be Christian: a blatantly false missive that was offensive in its own right but one that seems somewhat quaint in light of Saturday’s tweet.
Trump adviser Roger Stone sent an email to HuffPost several hours after this article was posted, with the subject line: Total Horseshit.
“A sheriff badge is the same shape as the Star of David,” Stone wrote. “You should be ashamed to publish crap like this – but then you don’t work for a real news organization.”
UPDATE: July 3 — Mic News reported that the image Trump used was previously shared on a website used by neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. The site said the image appeared on an entry posted around June 22, more than a week before Trump’s team tweeted it.
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I’m super disappointed I haven’t been added to the list of anti-semites. I guess I don’t get a badge of honor.
Well. What Donald Trump said is the truth and the truth hurts. I like Trump for telling the truth, he has been very careful to stay away from this issue but sooner or later things like this will happen.
The Jews cry any way. You have to give them 100% of what they want or else.
Why is the truth always anti-Semitic? The Jews (Wall Street, AIPAC, etc,) own Hillary. Her positions on Mideast issues are the same as Netanyahu’s. Deal with it!
There’s a new sheriff comin to town partners, and the evils don’t like him one bit!
Are 6 pointed sheriff stars going to be the undoing of the 6 pointed “death star of david”?
Some Jews like Trump but some others hate him despite the fact that Donald has told that he loves Israel with all his heart, he hates the Palestinians, he made his trillions of billions or millions with them in Wall Street, his kids are married to Jews, he said that as soon as he is president the first thing he will do is to change the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem “The Eternal Capital Of Israel”.
Why the Trump hate, guys? The “star” was clearly not the “star of David”. Do your research. This is nothing more than hysteria. I’m surprised at you folks. Shame on you!
Brilliant strategy- “freudian slip”. The yids go predictably crazy and expose themselves more to the uninitiated sheeple. They can’t help themselves and more people wake up. Most of all,Trumps support grows.