For the second time in 2016, Donald Trump reposted a message Wednesday night from a Twitter user who goes by the handle @WhiteGenocideTM.
The Republican presidential candidate retweeted and then deleted a post from @WhiteGenocideTM complimenting his crowds, but MSNBC saved a screenshot of the exchange:
Trump was widely criticized after reposting a meme by the user in January, which featured a photoshopped image of an apparently homeless Jeb Bush standing outside Trump Tower with a sign reading “Vote Trump.”
The account leaves no doubt about the Twitter user’s white supremacist sympathies. The user’s location is listed as “Jewmerica” and the bio reads “Jewish nationalist/supremacist!” The name: “Donald Trumpovitz.” The account’s feed features dozens of racist memes, posts arguing against miscegenation and pro-Trump messages.
The GOP candidate, who has received vocal support from white nationalist groups, has used retweeting as a way of distancing himself from the extreme views embraced by some of his supporters. After sharing a meme that incorrectly claimed that black Americans commit the majority of murders against white victims, he explained his action to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly by saying, “All it was is a retweet. It wasn’t from me.”
Just this week, Trump repeated a woman at a New Hampshire rally who called his GOP rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a “pussy,” and later justified the repetition: “It was like a retweet.”
h/t MSNBC
Well, he IS trying to win South Carolina.
Donald Trump: “Hey, I didn’t design the billboard, I didn’t have it created. I just saw it and moved it to my front yard!! I re-billboarded it!!”
The problem is that he really isn’t distancing himself. He is latching onto individuals who are clearly transparent and he doesn’t care if its out there (excluding now).
In other words, indistinguishable from Trump’s own Twitter account.