LATE UPDATE, July 5, 2016, 4:56 PM ET: As of Tuesday afternoon, Duke had co-opted Trump’s original tweet with the six-point star to push his own agenda.
He rated Trump’s message that Clinton is the “most corrupt candidate ever” as “absolutely true,” declaring her top donors “all Zio-Tribalists” in his pinned tweet.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Avid Donald Trump supporter and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was a big fan of the presumptive GOP nominee’s controversial tweet over the weekend, which was widely read as anti-Semitic.
After the Trump camp pulled an anti-Hillary Clinton tweet that included a six-point star and posted an edited version, Duke tweeted Saturday that he welcomes the exposure of “the hidden hand.”
Seems something changed? That’s ok, we welcome the hidden hand exposing itself.#MakeAmericaGreatAgain#AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/BqTfHQIPnV
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) July 3, 2016
Trump’s original tweet featured a meme, apparently plumbed from a corner of the white supremacist internet, labeling Clinton the “most corrupt candidate ever,” inside a six-point star and overlaid on a bed of money.
Trump later claimed the image was a “sheriff’s star” and blamed the “dishonest media” for labeling the image a Star of David.