But some social media users disputed Mr. Trump’s suggestion that a sheriff’s star had any resemblance to the Star of David. “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!” he wrote. One person asked him why he would delete a posting if he truly believed it was a sheriff’s star. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe Anti-Defamation League has long condemned Mr. Trump’s remarks on immigrants as hate speech and stereotyping. “The only reason the Trump sheriff star tweet is controversial is because CNN makes it that way,” wrote one supporter of Mr. Trump.

Source: New York Times July 04, 2016 20:55 UTC