Trump can’t let go of weekend tweet, stay focused on Clinton
RALEIGH, N.C. — It was an opportunity for Donald Trump to hone his message and focus his ire on Hillary Clinton’s emails and the criminal indictment he and his fellow Republicans say she deserved and unjustly dodged.
Instead, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee chose to interrupt his Wednesday night rally with an aggressive defence of a weekend tweet condemned as anti-Semitic, reminding anyone who may have been watching of the criticism that his campaign turns a blind eye to bigotry and attracts the support of white supremacists.
“I said, ‘You shouldn’t have taken it down,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in Cincinnati on Wednesday night, bringing up on his own the Saturday tweet that featured what many saw as a Star of David and the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” placed over a picture of Clinton and a pile of money.
“They took the star down,” he added. “I said, ‘Too bad, you should have left it up.’ I would rather have defended it.”