Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday claimed the campaign’s social media director had already apologized for a controversial tweet that featured the Star of David in a heated exchange on CNN.
Christine Quinn, appearing as a Hillary Clinton supporter, said Trump’s campaign has repeatedly posted offensive messages on Twitter, only to try to write them off with “Monday morning quarterbacking” and “creative stories.”
Lewandowski, a CNN political commentator, warned Quinn not to malign Dan Scavino, the Trump aide responsible for the controversial tweet.
“I don’t think we can impugn Dan Scavino, I don’t think there’s any malice there. And you don’t know him, so I’d be very careful about that,” Lewandowski replied.
He went on to cite Trump’s “long and storied history” of leading parades and supporting Israel as evidence the tweet was not intended to be anti-Semitic.
In a statement posted Monday evening on Facebook, Scavino said he did not source the meme from a white supremacist site and that it was based on the shape of a “sheriff’s badge.”
“As the Social Media Director for the campaign, I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image,” he said in the statement.
Watch a clip of the exchange via CNN:
Heated debate between @chriscquinn and @CLewandowski_ over use of controversial star in Donald Trump tweet https://t.co/Kzle48QcWX
— New Day (@NewDay) July 5, 2016
Dearest Corey,
Please practice your new lines:
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
“Want fries with that?”
And yet he wasn’t able to recognize the Star of David or its use as an anti-Semitic symbol.
His “long and storied history of leading parades” shows he is not anti-Semitic? What does one have to do with the other? This sounds more like word salad to me.
“…so I’d be very careful about that,” Lewandowski replied”
Here we go again with this neo-skinhead making threats. Correct your mistake, CNN. Take this asshole off the air.
If Drumpf didn’t post this (on the “@realDonaldJTrump” twitter), why is it called the realDonaldJTrump?