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You had an Instagram post last week that included Pepe the Frog, which is now a well-known symbol of the whitesupremacist movement, Stephanopoulos alleged in an interview on ABCs Good Morning America.

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Trump Jr responded by saying, Ive never even heard of Pepe the Frog. I bet 90% of your viewers havent heard of Pepe the Frog. I thought it was a frog in a wig I thought it was funny, I had no idea that there was any connotation there.

He added that the accusations against Pepe werea sign that journalists cannot credibly attack his fathers policy proposals. They dont even have answers for those things. So what do they do? They have to attack me.

The row over Pepe the Frog, a popular Internet meme in use since 2008, was initiated by the Clinton campaign afterElizabeth Chan, one of Clintons senior strategists, wrote a blog post in which she claimed Pepe was a symbol associated with white supremacy.

Stephanopoulos also referencedBreitbart TecheditorMilo Yiannopoulos in the photo, though not by name. There areothers in there who have been taken off Twitter because of their racist statements, he said. Milo is theonly person in the photo to have had their Twitter account suspended.Twitter, in its justification of the lifetime ban, falsely stated that Yiannopoulos incited harassment after Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones complained directly to Jack Dorsey, the social media companys CEO.

Earlier in the interview, Trump pushed back against accusations that he made a Holocaust joke about the gas chamber method of capital punishment. He cited his relationship with his sister, a convert to Orthodox Judaism, and several close friends, then recalled how he made the same joke but said electric chair just weeks ago.

Trump said this controversy illustrated why a recent Gallup poll showed that the American publics trust of journalists has reached a record low. If youre a conservative, you dont even get a fair shot, he said. They dont even give you the benefit of the doubt Its why less than a third of Americans even trust the media anymore.

Stephanopoulos did not disclose during this interview, and does not disclose during coverage of the 2016 election, that heworked in the White House as Senior Adviser to the President during Bill Clintons first term. ABC News has designated Stephanopoulos the lead anchor in its 2016 election coverage.

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