When asked what he would say to Trump if given the chance, Duke responded, “I would say, ‘Donald Trump, we hope you keep all your promises”.
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Trump’s rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz slammed him for not immediately distancing himself from Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.
The current GOP frontrunner for president, Donald Trump, is facing some outrage and criticism after a series of freaky events, including a refusal to reject the endorsement from David Duke, a known leader of the KKK. In his interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Trump had not only declined to disavow Duke three times, he claimed ignorance about Duke and his organization.
“I didn’t even know if he was still around”, said one man we spoke with.
I know the Republican Party would like to push that push that idea because they haven’t been able to take him down yet.
Monday night, David Duke told WWL-TV over the phone there is a national media bias against Trump. How are we going to grow our party with a nominee that refuses to condemn the Ku Klux Klan? And, you know, you get asked these questions – I don’t know what happened. “I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying”.
“David Duke was disavowed”, Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America.” . He also noted that he disavowed Duke’s endorsement at a Friday press conference during which he rolled out the endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The same operative pointed to Trump’s 2000 interview where with NBC’s Matt Lauer where Trump called Duke “a bigot, a racist, a problem”. “I’d have to look”.
Trump fired back at Romney, tweeting that the 2012 Republican candidate was a “dope” and “one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics”.
Tapes leaked by radio host Harry Shearer, of conversations involving Scarborough, Brzezinski and Trump during commercial breaks in Trump’s February 17 town hall meeting on MSNBC, revealed the type of banter between media figures and a candidate usually not seen when cameras are rolling.
The former secretary of state added a twist to Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again”, saying “I don’t think America ever stopped being great”, and promising she would try to make the country whole.
Rubio said at a Virginia rally: “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable”.
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Polls show him losing to both Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, in hypothetical November matchups.
