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Trump Retweets Nazi Post by “White Genocide TM” in “Jewmerica”

Alex Constantine - January 24, 2016

Donald Trump, the current front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, on Friday rewteeted a post by an account with the handle “White Genocide TM,” which gives its location as “Jewmerica.”

Reuters identified the image for the account as that of George Lincoln Rockwell, a prominent figure in the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.

The tweet reads: “Poor Jeb. I could’ve sworn I saw him outside Trump Tower the other day!” It includes a doctored image of rival candidate Jeb Bush, the son of former president George H.W. Bush and brother of George W. Bush, holding up a sign reading: “Vote Trump.”

Jeb Bush’s communications director, Tim Miller, tweeted in response: “The Godwin’s Double: Trump’s anti-Jeb retweets now include one from a Nazi’s account and another calling Jeb a Nazi.”

His reference to “Godwin’s Double” alludes to “Godwin’s Law,” an adage from the early days of the internet penned by lawyer Mike Godwin, which states that, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”

At the time of writing, Trump had not deleted the tweet. The owner of @WhiteGenocideTM has the account locked down, and must approve all follow requests before their tweets can be seen.

According to one of the responses to Trump’s retweet, the White Genocide account has previously claimed that the Holocaust was a hoax.

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, converted to Orthodox Judaism before she married real estate developer Jared Kushner in 2009. Last year, she told Vogue magazine that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, keep Shabbat, including not using their telephones on the day of rest.

 

The Godwin's Double: Trump's anti-Jeb retweets now include one from a Nazi's account and another calling Jeb a Nazi.