Trump and his supporters have said it wasn't meant

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Trump and his supporters have said it wasn't meant as a Star of David, 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 on a message board jam-packed with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, white supremacist ideology and neo-Nazi propaganda. CNN confirmed the image appeared on the website by using the web archive search tool Wayback Machine.

And a Twitter user, "@Fishbonehead1," who frequently posted Islamophobic and racist memes, claimed credit for the original image shortly before the account was deleted. The account first tweeted the graphic June 15.

The Trump campaign refused to answer repeated questions over the weekend about where the campaign found the image or whether any of its staffers frequented the fringe message board or other sites that peddle in anti-Semitic and white supremacist views.

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