Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a tweet over the weekend that incorrectly identified a woman giving a Nazi salute outside a rally for Donald Trump as a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), according to Gawker.
Trump Jr. appears to have deleted his retweet of a post from Twitter account @voxday.
The “Trump Nazi” is Portia Boulger, who runs the Women for Bernie Sanders Twitter account. It’s another media plant. pic.twitter.com/m1CkwWgwud
— Supreme Dark Lord (@voxday) March 12, 2016
The New York Times identified the woman in the photo taken by the Chicago Tribune as Birgitt Peterson, a Trump supporter.
“The Republican Party needs to be broken up, and I believe Donald Trump is the one to do it,” Peterson told the New York Times.
She told the Times that when Trump’s Chicago rally was cancelled on Friday, she ended up near a group of protesters, one of which she said was holding a sign with Adolf Hitler on it.
“They said Trump is a second Hitler,” she said. “I said do you know what that sign stands for? Do you know who Hitler really was?”
“I make the point that they are demonstrating something they had no knowledge about,” Peterson continued. “If you want to do it right, you do it right. You don’t know what you are doing.”
She told the Times that she then gave a Nazi salute as a way to counter-protest.
“Absolutely I’m not a Nazi, no,” Peterson said. “I’m not one of those.”
I hate Illinois Nazis.
I still can’t decide who’s more repulsive - Drumpf’s children or RMoney’s children.
I saw what you did there!
Part of why that was so funny in the Blues Brothers is the very concept of Nazis in Illinois was so ridiculous, and they were so hapless. The fact that we have to actually discuss nazi-ism in places like Illinois has shattered my comfortable world view that we are better off as a country than we were 30 years ago.
In all seriousness, though, Trump’s supporters and Trump himself do this a lot. They deflect the awful behavior of their supporters by saying they’re actually someone else’s supporter. It’s maddening because it’s easy to debunk, but the media just doesn’t.
You mean a scion of the Trump family tree is a liar? I’m shocked, just shocked.