Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE shared a tweet that tied his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Democratic super PAC to hit Trump in battleground states over coronavirus deaths Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE, to the Ku Klux Klan.

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Trump reposted a tweet on Saturday morning that slammed Clinton as "Crooked Hillary" and claimed she said “a KKK member was her mentor.”

"@DiamondandSilk: Crooked Hillary getting desperate. On TV bashing Trump. @CNN, she forgot how she said a KKK member was her mentor. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2016

The tweet was posted by user @DiamondandSilk, the account of the duo of black sisters, Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, who frequently speak at Trump’s rallies.

The sisters told CNN that the tweet was a reference to the late West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd (D), who was a former KKK member. In 2010, Clinton mourned his death and said Byrd was “a true American original, my friend and mentor," CNN reported.

Clinton’s campaign recently released a video tying Trump to the KKK. The video features clips of KKK leaders and white nationalists who have been vocal about their supporter for Trump.

Her video was released ahead of her major “alt-right" speech, in which she hoped to link Trump to the radical far-right group that’s often associated with white supremacists.