Original version –> Plausible Deniability version
The meme Donald Trump put on Twitter on Saturday…was first created by a racist Twitter account.
On Saturday, his campaign tweeted an image co-opting a graphic depicting Hillary Clinton proudly looking off into the distance with the words “History made” emblazoned across it. Except this version featured a background made entirely of money and prominently included what appeared to be a red Star of David with the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” written inside…
On Monday, however, Trump tweeted that he thought it was a sheriff’s star, blah, blah. Though he took down the original tweet [above, left] and replaced it with a circle around his blather [above, right] within 2 hours of original posting. Point’s already made. Every anti-semite in America already has access to a saved copy of the original.
The earliest iteration of the questionable picture seems to have come from the Twitter account @FishBoneHead1, which tweeted the image on June 15.
From there, the image found its way to 8chan, a gurgling cesspool on the Internet that is currently devoted to celebrating the death of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. As Mic.com reported on Sunday, the image was posted there on June 22, featuring the file name HillHistory.jpg which could be a reference to the Neo-Nazi code “HH,” short for “Heil Hitler.”
The individual running the account seems proud of the work, tweeting at various news outlets to claim credit…
“We’ve been troubled by the anti-Semites and racists during this political season, and we’ve seen a number of so-called Trump supporters peddling some of the worst stereotypes all through this year,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League told The Daily Beast. Greenblatt said the organization would like to see Trump speak out against the individuals behind prejudiced images that permeate social media. “For those people who say that you can write this off, and that calling it out is simply political correctness, it’s crazy.”
You’d think that bigots and racists, the drivel wing of American conservatism might get explanations of political correctness sorted in their own writings. It was, after all, they that founded the concept — starting with the campaign to put GOD into everything from the Pledge to the American flag to our currency back in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
I lived through all of those discussions. Though it was clear at the time that Congressional-class cowards would never stand up against compromising our secular constitution. McCarthyism – the early version of Cruzism, Trumpism – was in charge of patriotic ideology. Even after the defeat of McCarthy and a half-assed resumption of the Bill of Rights, no Congress has ever had the guts to turn those public elements of our nation back to the originals.
Eideard 
“Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff’s Star, or plain star!” (Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump) http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/07/05/Trump-says-it-was-a-sheriffs-star-in-tweet-criticized-as-anti-Semitic/5101467724539/ See also “Kidnapped By A Narcissist: The GOP’s Stockholm Syndrome” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-north-patterson/kidnapped-by-a-narcissist_b_10682938.html
“Documenting America’s white nationalists” http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/06/magazine-documenting-america-white-nationalists-150609095548558.html
“They are angry, and rightfully so, that something they were promised no longer exists. They have been blindsided; brought into a system that doesn’t work anymore.” Michael Kimmel, author of “Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era.”
America’s right-wing, proto-Nazis, are stupid enough to think lying is akin to cunning. Everyone knows they’re lying. Acolytes or disgusted observers alike. All they build-in for the long-term is contempt for their childish antics.
Isn’t that one of the ways people dismissed the Nazis before they finally took over Germany?
“…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”, vol. I, ch. X
“Who Are All These Trump Supporters? At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.” (New Yorker, July 11/18 issue) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/george-saunders-goes-to-trump-rallies