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Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Trump poster on Jewish-owned building in Florida defaced with Nazi symbols
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Donald Trump campaign poster on a Florida building owned by a Jewish woman is defaced to make the front-running GOP candidate look like Adolf Hitler.
The words to the poster in the window of a vacant storefront in Jacksonville reading “We want Donald Trump! Republican Candidate For President” is altered with spray paint to read “heil Donald Trump! Nazi Candidate For President.” A swastika is drawn on Trump’s forehead and a small mustache resembling Hitler’s drawn on his upper lip.
Building owner Patsy Butts tells local media that the graffiti was targeting the Jewish community.
“If it’s just the fact that they don’t like Donald Trump and they don’t like Donald Trump becoming president, why didn’t they just say … ‘We don’t want Donald Trump’ or something of that effect,” Butts tells the local ABC affiliate KSAT. “But what they did is they made Donald Trump look like Hitler. Then they put the swastika on his forehead. That to me is a direct affront to the Jewish people.”
Trump sign defaced to look like Hitler https://t.co/pQ5XKevK5A #KSATnews pic.twitter.com/WSJcfzsqfN
— KSAT 12 (@ksatnews) January 5, 2016
Butts says she will not remove the Trump sign and that she plans to offer the empty office space to whichever Republican candidate secures the nomination.
— JTA
The Times of Israel Community.