When it was pointed out that a Donald Trump campaign graphic posted to the candidate's Twitter and Facebook accounts included a photo of people dressed in Nazi soldier uniforms, Trump's people quickly found an appropriately defenseless scapegoat to blame:
"A young intern created and posted the image and did not see the very faded figures within the flag of the stock photo. The intern apologized and immediately deleted the tweet."
The graphic was removed after it had been up for about an hour.
The stock photo allegedly grabbed by Trump's intern appears to depict a reenactment of some kind, a photo of which was uploaded to iStock in 2006.
Three of the soldiers are dressed in the Waffen-SS's distinctive spotted Flecktarn camouflage. Two of them are wearing Nazi uniforms with cuff titles, which are also typically associated with the Waffen-SS units.
