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Trump ally Michael Flynn sorry for retweet of antisemitic message
Source: The Guardian
Trump ally Michael Flynn sorry for retweet of antisemitic message
Alan Yuhas
Sunday 24 July 2016 18.51 BST
Associations of antisemitism returned to shadow Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Sunday, after the Republican and his allies, including a three-star general who was a vice-presidential hopeful, were forced again to answer questions about supporters with explicitly bigoted views.
The retired army lieutenant general Michael Flynn retweeted an explicitly antisemitic message regarding the leak of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Flynn, who was on the shortlist to be Trump’s VP and spoke during primetime at the Republican national convention last week, retweeted a post in sympathy with a Trump supporter who mocked Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which has blamed Russian hackers for the leak.
The pseudonymous Trump supporter tweeted: “CNN implicated. ‘The USSR is to blame!’ Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”
The retired general deleted his retweet and later said “the earlier retweet was a mistake” and that he had meant to link to an article on Clinton and the DNC emails. “My sincerest apologies,” he added.
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Alan Yuhas
Sunday 24 July 2016 18.51 BST
Associations of antisemitism returned to shadow Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Sunday, after the Republican and his allies, including a three-star general who was a vice-presidential hopeful, were forced again to answer questions about supporters with explicitly bigoted views.
The retired army lieutenant general Michael Flynn retweeted an explicitly antisemitic message regarding the leak of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Flynn, who was on the shortlist to be Trump’s VP and spoke during primetime at the Republican national convention last week, retweeted a post in sympathy with a Trump supporter who mocked Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which has blamed Russian hackers for the leak.
The pseudonymous Trump supporter tweeted: “CNN implicated. ‘The USSR is to blame!’ Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”
The retired general deleted his retweet and later said “the earlier retweet was a mistake” and that he had meant to link to an article on Clinton and the DNC emails. “My sincerest apologies,” he added.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/donald-trump-general-michael-flynn-antisemitic-tweet
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