White supremacist and former KKK leader David Duke on Tuesday dismissed claims by Donald Trump aides that the six-point star in a tweeted image critical of rival Hillary Clinton was meant to be a ...

Trump deleted the tweet, then resent the same image with the star changed to a circle. The defense: Trump argues that it was a sheriff’s badge, or perhaps a “basic” six-pointed star.

Monday night, Trump posted a statement on Facebook from his social media director, who took responsibility for the tweet and said the sheriff's badge ... with a circle instead of a star.

Donald Trump wants everyone to know that he and the movie Frozen have something in common — both have used a six-pointed star ... saying that it was a sheriff’s star that was available ...

but a simple six-pointed star or Sheriff’s badge. It might be, except for the fact that the image wasn’t created by the Trump campaign. Ten days before Trump tweeted it, the graphic appeared ...

Trump's account tweeted the image a second time using a revised version with a circle in ... and that the six-pointed star in the image was intended to represent a sheriff's badge rather than ...

There are five-pointed stars, either within a circle or not. There are also six-pointed stars ... Rangers and California Rangers wore badges with a star set in a circle.

The "sheriff's star" This weekend, he blamed members of the "dishonest media" for suggesting that the six-point star was meant to represent a Star of David — many of whom spent the weekend ...

a picture of an attack ad against his opponent Hilary Clinton that included an image of a six-pointed star, was not invoking a Star of David, as critics claimed, but rather a sheriff’s badge.