2 of Trump's most controversial tweets ever were sent exactly a year apart — nearly to the minute

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July 6, 2017 5:32 PM

Both tweets were fired off on July 2, featured internet memes, and went up shortly after 9 a.m. ET.

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Two of President Donald Trump's most controversial tweets were sent exactly a year apart, almost to the minute.

The first, from 2016, was Trump's tweet attacking then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with a meme that featured a photo of Clinton, a pile of money, and six-pointed star, commonly known as the Jewish Star of David. The accompanying text read "the most corrupt candidate ever!"

It went up on July 2, 2016, at 9:37 a.m. ET.

"A Star of David, a pile of cash, and suggestions of corruption," wrote Erick Erickson, a conservative radio host. "Donald Trump again plays to the white supremacists."

Trump's account took the tweet down hours later and replaced the image of the six-pointed star with a circle that contained the same text.

It was reported shortly after the tweet caught fire that the same image of Clinton superimposed on a pile of money with the Jewish star appeared on the internet message board 8chan's politics forum more than a week before Trump tweeted it. The forum is a hotspot for neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic activity.

Trump days later told an Ohio audience that he regretted his campaign's move to delete the original tweet, blaming CNN for its coverage of the post and calling the outlet's reporters "sick," 'dishonest," and "bad people." He insisted the star was not the Star of David.

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