Donald Trump Jr. pushed back on Page Six’s coverage of his social media support of Roseanne Barr Tuesday, saying his retweets of the actor’s rant about Democratic mega-donor George Soros on Twitter did not mean he was anti-Semitic.
“Page Six is doing what they normally do, lying and obfuscating. They know full well that I did not RT anything that was anti-semitic [sic], but I guess facts don’t matter when you’re a dishonest, clickbait rag,” Trump Jr. wrote.
Page Six is doing what they normally do, lying and obfuscating. They know full well that I did not RT anything that was anti-semitic, but I guess facts don’t matter when you’re a dishonest, clickbait rag. #FAKENEWS https://t.co/7vdQKNTasd
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 29, 2018
Barr, who was raised Jewish, tweeted Tuesday that Soros, a liberal billionaire, was a Nazi “who turned in his fellow Jews [to] be murdered” and robbed them of their possessions.
Sorry to have tweeted incorrect info about you!I Please forgive me! By the way, George Soros is a nazi who turned in his fellow Jews 2 be murdered in German concentration camps & stole their wealth-were you aware of that? But, we all make mistakes, right Chelsea?
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) May 29, 2018
Soros was born in Hungary to a Jewish family in 1930. He and his family survived Nazi occupation “by securing false identity papers, concealing their backgrounds, and helping others do the same,” according to his Open Society Foundations.
Snopes investigated rumors that Soros was both a member of the Schutzstaffel, stormtroopers of the Nazi Party, and a Nazi collaborator who supported efforts to confiscate property from Jewish people. The fact-checking website deemed the claims to be false.
Page Six reported that Trump Jr. had re-upped Barr’s accusations against Soros in an article titled, “Donald Trump Jr. retweeted Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets,” to which he linked in the tweet attacking Page Six.
The story does not refer to Barr’s missives as “anti-Semitic,” but the tabloid publication’s earlier coverage of her Soros tweets did contain such language.
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