Donald Trump is taking heat for tweeting an image of a six-pointed star next to his rival Hillary Clinton. (Screenshot from Twitter)

(JTA) — Donald Trump defended his campaign’s tweet of an image showing a Star of David shape and dollar bills superimposed over an image of Hillary Clinton during a rally in Ohio.

The image posted on Saturday, which bore the words “most corrupt candidate ever” inside the red six-pointed star, was then taken down and a new image was posted with the Star of David shape replaced with a circle. Trump has continued to maintain that the star was meant to be a sheriff’s star or just a plain star.

Trump told his supporters gathered near Cincinnati on Wednesday that he would have preferred to have left the star on the tweet’s image.

“I would have rather defended up and say no that’s not a Star of David that’s just a star that talks about corrupt Hillary,” Trump said at the rally, according to The Hill political website.

He accused the media of “racially profiling” his campaign for highlighting the star and conflating it with the Star of David.

“All of a sudden it turned out to be in the minds of the press, only because it could have been a sheriff’s star it could have been a regular star,” Trump said, according to The Hill. “They said ‘Oh it had money behind it.’ So actually they’re racially profiling.”

“They’re profiling, not us, because why are they bringing this up? Why do they bring it up?” Trump said.

He said that his social media director Dan Scavino, who is married to a Jewish woman, was the one who put out the original tweet.

Later on Wednesday night Trump tweeted a photo of the cover of a “Frozen” sticker book with a red six-pointed star and the words “With 50 stickers” on the cover.

“Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the ‘Star of David’ also? Dishonest media! #Frozen,” he wrote.

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