{"id":1004534,"date":"2016-07-05T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/dnc-chair-statement-on-trumps-use-of-star-of-david-in-offensive-tweet\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:20:29","slug":"dnc-chair-statement-on-trumps-use-of-star-of-david-in-offensive-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-trumps-use-of-star-of-david-in-offensive-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Statement on Trump\u2019s Use of Star of David in Offensive Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash; DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement&nbsp;on Donald Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2016\/07\/05\/neo_nazi_twitter_account_created_trump_star_of_david_image_watermark_indicates.html\">anti-Semitic tweet<\/a>, which originated on a white supremacist blog:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is not a stand-alone incident,&nbsp;and Donald Trump ought to come clean with the American people. The fact is that throughout this campaign, Donald Trump has exhibited a pattern of deeply troubling behavior including&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/mar\/02\/donald-trump\/trumps-absurd-claim-he-knows-nothing-about-former-\/\">failing&nbsp;to disavow David Duke<\/a>,&nbsp;dismissing concerns of Jewish reporters who have been&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/05\/05\/news-opinion\/politics\/trump-no-message-for-followers-who-flooded-reporter-with-anti-semitic-abuse\">harassed<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;his&nbsp;supporters, making offensive, stereotypical comments about Jewish leaders at an event, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/donald-trump-s-star-david-tweet-about-hillary-clinton-posted-n603161\">tweeting&nbsp;out coded anti-Semitic appeals<\/a>.&nbsp;Trump has gone so far with language that pits Americans against one another that he&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/white-nationalists-see-advancement-through-donald-trumps-candidacy-1463523858\">credited<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;reviving the&nbsp;white nationalist movement in the United&nbsp;States, and that is perhaps the most potent proof that he lacks the temperament and has disqualified himself from holding the office of President of the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash; DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement&nbsp;on Donald Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;anti-Semitic tweet, which originated on a white supremacist blog: &ldquo;This is not a stand-alone incident,&nbsp;and Donald Trump ought to come clean with the American people. The fact is that throughout this campaign, Donald Trump has exhibited a pattern of deeply troubling behavior <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Statement on Trump\u2019s Use of Star of David in Offensive Tweet - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-trumps-use-of-star-of-david-in-offensive-tweet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-05T19:05:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:20:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-trumps-use-of-star-of-david-in-offensive-tweet\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-trumps-use-of-star-of-david-in-offensive-tweet\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Statement on Trump\u2019s Use of Star of David in Offensive Tweet - 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