Trump Accuses Clinton Of ‘False Attacks’ Over Star Tweet

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Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton in a statement Monday of engaging in “false attacks” over a tweet he posted on Saturday that her campaign and others have interpreted to be anti-Semitic.

The original tweet, posted by Trump on Saturday morning, was an image labeling Clinton “corrupt” with a Star of David. Trump later posted an updated version of the image with a circle instead of a star and ultimately took down the initial tweet. But he has insisted that it was not anti-Semitic and that the star was a “Sheriff’s Star” or a “plain star.”

The Clinton campaign, meanwhile, described it as a “blatantly anti-Semitic image,” pointing to reports that the image was previously posted on a white supremacist web forum, and said it was “disturbing.”

The Trump campaign pushed back at Clinton’s response and suggested she was using it to distract from the controversy over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State. Read the full Trump statement below:

These false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying to link the Star of David with a basic star, often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, showing an inscription that says “Crooked Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever” with anti-Semitism is ridiculous. Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband. The real questions are, why was Bill Clinton meeting secretly with the US Attorney General on her case and where are the 33,000 missing emails and all of the other information missing from her case – Why are there so many lies?

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  1. The Libertarian candidate’s remarks were even more scathing, Drumpf

    Trump comments ‘clearly’ racist, says Gary Johnson amid antisemitism furor

    The Libertarian candidate for president, Gary Johnson, said on Sunday Donald Trump’s recent comments were “clearly” racist, a day after the presumptive Republican nominee faced accusations of antisemitism and in the same week that he said he would consider firing government employees who wear hijabs.

    “He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president but it doesn’t seem to affect him,” Johnson told CNN’s State of the Union. “The stuff he’s saying is just incendiary. It’s racist.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/03/donald-trump-racist-gary-johnson-antisemitism-hillary-clinton

    • Why are there so many lies?

    I don’t know Donald. You tell me.

  2. Pardon the possibly stupid question, but was there an actual Fox News poll that determined this?

  3. Donald is trying to distract from the secrets he’s hiding in his tax returns.

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