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Donald Trump’s Twitter account has long been famous for its creative spelling and less creative insults. Now it’s rapidly building a reputation for something else: endorsing the work of bigots.

On Friday, Mr. Trump tweeted the following:

“@WhiteGenocideTM: @realDonaldTrump Poor Jeb. I could’ve sworn I saw him outside Trump Tower the other day! https://t.co/e5uLRubqla” — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 22 Jan 16

The image is relatively tame, if in poor taste. More concerning is its source, a Twitter user going by @WhiteGenocideTM. Benjy Sarlin at MSNBC has done the unpleasant work of going back through this user’s timeline, and writes:

Recent tweets and retweets from the account include anti-Semitic imagery, quotes from Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and tweets deriding Martin Luther King Jr. The profile also listed a link to a website promoting a biographical documentary of Adolf Hitler, including a section that casts doubt on whether the Holocaust actually occurred.

This is not the first time Mr. Trump has retweeted something linked to neo-Nazism. As Mr. Sarlin notes, Mr. Trump retweeted a graphic in November that made the false claim that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by black people (actually, 82 percent of white people murdered in 2014 were killed by other whites). That graphic was apparently first posted on Twitter by a user whose avatar was a swastika.

Responding to criticism over the fake stats (from none other than Bill O’Reilly), Mr. Trump said he got millions of messages on Twitter. “Am I gonna check every statistic?” he asked.

Well, yes — somebody in the Trump campaign certainly should be checking the source and accuracy of tweets before @realDonaldTrump retweets them. But no extensive checking would have been necessary to determine that someone with the Twitter handle @WhiteGenocideTM might not be the kind of person whose sentiments a presidential candidate should be spreading.

If Mr. Trump actually wanted to avoid promoting racist ideology, though, his Twitter account — and his entire campaign — would be different.