New York Daily News

Donald tweets Nazi hate

- Denis Slattery

DONALD TRUMP had a message for his followers Friday — from a neo-Nazi sympathize­r.

The Republican presidenti­al candidate retweeted a tweet to his nearly 6 million followers from a user with the handle @WhiteGenoc­ideTM.

The tweet featured a photoshopp­ed picture of a ragged-looking former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush holding a “vote for Trump” sign outside of Trump Tower.

The name attached to the profile was listed as Donald Trumpovitz, and the location of the user was “Jewmerica.”

The account includes anti-Semitic imagery, quotes from Nazi propagandi­st Joseph Goebbels and tweets deriding Martin Luther King Jr. Another photoshop creation depicts Trump, in a Nazi uniform, forcing Jewish Democratic presidenti­al candidate Bernie Sanders into a gas chamber.

The profile also listed a link to a website promoting a biographic­al documentar­y of Adolf Hitler.

Trump’s decision to share the hateful user’s message was met with disgust on Twitter.

“White genocide folks are Nazis. Trump’s transforma­tion into Hitler is complete,” rapper Talib Kweli wrote in response.

Calls for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and plans for a wall along the Mexican border have been focal points of the Trump campaign. The race-baiting rhetoric has made him a popular figure among white supremacis­t groups.

Last week, one such group, the American Freedom Party, said it had placed thousands of automated phone calls in Iowa urging voters to support Trump because “we don’t need Muslims.”

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