How Donald Trump's Campaign Collapsed Into An Anti-Semitic Vacuum | ThinkProgress

On Wednesday night, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stood before a crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio and did something few, if any, major American presidential candidates have done: unabashedly defend something widely thought to be anti-Semitic.

After briefly addressing recent remarks in which he praised felled dictator Saddam Hussein, Trump attempted to quell the controversy surrounding a recent tweet published by his campaign criticizing his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. He flatly rejected the accusation that the image in the tweet, which superimposed a six-pointed over a pile of money before it was deleted and hastily altered, was anti-Semitic.

“That’s just a star,” Mr. Trump proclaimed to the crowd over and over again, dismissing those who say the image resembled the Jewish Star of David and played on stereotypes that cast Jews as money-obsessed....
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