Team Trump clearly has support from the fringes of society—you know, your white supremacists and anti-Semites. As if that weren’t a big enough problem, Trump and his supporters and surrogates continue to give a platform to such views, particularly on social media. On Sunday, it was retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s turn. The former Obama administration official turned Trump adviser and one-time dark-horse VP pick, retweeted this clearly anti-Semitic remark.
I mean, what to even say about that tweet? Flynn later tweeted an apology, but it’s not like Flynn is new to the medium; he’s been on Twitter since January 2011 and has fired off more than 1,000 tweets since then. The video in question in the retweet was of a Clinton campaign official talking about whether Russia is attempting to influence the U.S. election. Russian hackers were responsible for an embarrassing hack of the DNC.