Donald Trump campaign tweets photo of Nazi soldiers inside U.S. flag, blames intern

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign says an inte is to blame for a tweet of a steely-eyed Trump faded into the background of an American flag alongside $100 bills and marching Nazi re-enactors with the hashtag #MakeAmericaGreatAgain.

The silhouetted Nazis were pointed out by John Schindler on Twitter, who said he was “100% certain [of the] Waffen-SS ID on the Trump pic.” The Hill noted that Schindler was a former professor at the Naval War College and retired intelligence official.

100% certain Waffen-SS ID on the Trump pic....if media want an explainer how I am certain, ask me https://t.co/b3pwWmdwHY — John Schindler (@20committee) July 14, 2015

The Hill wrote that other historians confirmed Schindler’s suspicion.

Some extra leg work on this done elsewhere revealed the stock photo source.

Found @realDonaldTrump's german soldier stock image here (searched "world war II soldiers") http://t.co/GKkcNTUKpm pic.twitter.com/ysWGeePZIr — Reed F. Richardson (@reedfrich) July 14, 2015

 Trump's original tweet has since been deleted but was captured in a screen shot.

The Trump campaign reportedly blamed an inte for the Nazi SS tweet: http://t.co/CwlugEDvUF pic.twitter.com/9KTWcudj4Q — VICE News (@vicenews) July 14, 2015

Confirming this as a faux-pas, the tweet was deleted from the account an hour later, and the Trump campaign attributed the mistake to a “young inte” who may hear the words “you’re fired” in the coming days.

Trump campaign responds: An inte did it. pic.twitter.com/oZBJAtwffl — Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 14, 2015