Tweets Star-of-David image calling Clinton “most corrupt candidate ever”

On July 2, 2016, Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account tweeted a campaign-style image of Hillary Clinton against a background of $100 bills with a red six-pointed star next to her face, recycling anti-Semitic tropes about Jews, money, and corruption. Reporters traced the graphic—labeled inside the star in language calling her the most corrupt candidate ever and captioned with his familiar “Crooked” branding—to a white-supremacist message board, and after criticism from Jewish groups, Democrats, and some Republicans, the campaign deleted the tweet and reposted the picture with the star replaced by a circle. Rather than acknowledge the problem, Trump later insisted the symbol could have been a sheriff’s badge and blamed “dishonest media” for trying to paint him as anti-Semitic, illustrating his pattern of importing extremist internet content into mainstream politics and attacking the press when its origins are exposed.

"“Crooked Hillary makes history” next to a red six-pointed star labeling her “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”." — July 2, 2016 tweet from @realDonaldTrump featuring a campaign graphic with Hillary Clinton on a bed of cash and a six-pointed star overlaid with “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”, which he later deleted and reposted with a circle before defending the original as “a Sheriff’s Star, or plain star” and blaming the “dishonest media.”