Donald Trump courted controversy on Saturday when he tweeted an anti-Semitic attack against Hillary Clinton. Mic later revealed that the attack originated from an white supremacist on Twitter.
This shouldn’t be a surprise. Trump has repeatedly taken cues from white supremicists on Twitter, tweeting their memes, racist arguments and praise for his candidacy.
Here are three unreptentent white supremicists that have inspried Donald Trump.
@cheesedBrit
This account was the originator of a fake, racist meme that claimed 81% of whites are killed by blacks. (The actual percentage is 14%.) Trump tweeted the graphic.
He later refused to apologize, saying he didn’t have time to vet this kind of information. “Am I gonna check every statistic?” Trump said.
The account has been deleted but its avatar was a neo-Nazi symbol and the owner expressed admiration for Hitler.
@whitegenocideTM
Trump retweeted this account when it posted a meme mocking Jeb Bush.
"@WhiteGenocideTM: @realDonaldTrump Poor Jeb. I could've sworn I saw him outside Trump Tower the other day! https://t.co/e5uLRubqla"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
The account “tweets obsessively about white women allegedly raped by various minority groups.”
It also exposouses pro-Hilter sentiments.
https://twitter.com/WhiteGenocideTM/status/687730434353016833
The account is deeply racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Trump.
https://twitter.com/WhiteGenocideTM/status/742418425914482688
https://twitter.com/WhiteGenocideTM/status/741297872931545089
@FishBoneHead1
This account was the originator of the anti-Semitic meme attacking Hillary Clinton that Trump tweeted on Saturday.
https://twitter.com/FishBoneHead1/status/743239011326656512
The account’s tweets are Islamophobic, racist and and sexist.
https://twitter.com/FishBoneHead1/status/744410725536399360
https://twitter.com/FishBoneHead1/status/723279490009411584
https://twitter.com/FishBoneHead1/status/712787831089938433
These examples are not anomalies.
A study by the Twitter analytics firm Little Bird in January found that 62% of the accounts that Donald Trump retweeted had ties to white supremacists.