A refugee took the photo at the centre of the Trump Jr Skittle controversy

Yesterday, Donald Trump Jr Read More: got in a whole heap of trouble for tweeting an image that compared refugees to poisonous Skittles.

Wed, 21 Sep, 2016 - 01:00

Ciara Flaherty

In his tweet, the son of the Republican presidential candidate used an image of a bowl of Skittles with the accompanying text: "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?’’

"That’s our Syrian refugee problem."

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