Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio had some choice words to share on Trump’s CNN appearance, and his unwillingness to distance himself from Duke.
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On his radio program, Duke recently told his listeners that supporting someone other than Trump is “really treason to your heritage”.
Kasich also disavowed White supremacists on CNN Monday when asked about Trump’s response.
Stephen Colbert admonished Donald Trump on The Late Show Monday for failing the easiest test in politics: Not disavowing the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. I hear various groups.
Friday during a press conference, Trump said: “David Duke endorsed me?”
“They’re not going to get the nomination”, he said.” haven’t even focused on Hillary Clinton yet and I can tell you the one person that Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to run against is me and I have that on good knowledge”. I’d have to look.
“I don’t know anything about David Duke”, said Trump. “It’d be very unfair disavowing a group if they shouldn’t be disavowed”.
I know the Republican Party would like to push that push that idea because they haven’t been able to take him down yet.
He later blamed the problem on a bad earpiece.
“I think the right answer to this is (to say) this country does not discriminate”.
Trump later justified his answer by saying he had been given a faulty earpiece, but Colbert wasn’t having that excuse.
Trump also came under under criticism over the weekend for retweeting quotes from Benito Mussolini.
“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever met him”.
The former governor has repeatedly expressed his suspicions about the Republican candidate’s taxes. “We believe in equality and fair treatment and that’s the moral principle that we adhere to as a nation and I hope he makes that clear”.
De Blasio has criticized Trump previously for comments made against Muslims, women and other groups.
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Colbert said he could understand waiting until the end of the sentence before disavowing anyone, but he said an interviewer needs only to reach “Ku Klux” before a candidate can safely issue a condemnation. “His coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America”, tweeted Romney, who has been actively hitting Trump for days. “We can not be the party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan”, Rubio said.
