Donald Trump said “there’s nobody that’s done so much for equality as I have” and unequivocally renounced the support of white supremacists on Tuesday.
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Romney himself was accused of being pushing a “big, racist lie”, during the campaign, and President Barack Obama reportedly was angered after Romney’s call to concede the 2012 election.
While the former Klansman stopped short of making an official endorsement, he did support Trump’s candidacy and hoped the billionaire “does everything we hope he will do”.
McConnell was asked twice about a New York Times report that he said in a closed-door party meeting that down-ballot Republicans might drop Trump “like a hot rock”, and he responded with a classic Washington non-denial. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them.
Trump: I don’t know any – honestly, I don’t know David Duke.
Trump: Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK? “Would you just say unequivocally you condemn them and you don’t want their support?”
“Frankly, I think we have good reason to believe that there’s a bombshell in Donald Trump’s taxes”, Romney told Fox News.
I did not hear it from the field, but the slur came from directly behind my parents, who, along with many others, quickly turned to see who had made the remark.
Even though Trump was backed by the racist and criminal outfit, he refused to acknowledge the existence of David Duke, who is the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. That same day, Trump announced he would not seek the Reform Party nomination during an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today Show”.
Trump subsequently disavowed Duke, blaming his interview performance Sunday on a bad earpiece. “I disavow. OK?” Trump reiterated the point in a tweet Sunday after his CNN appearance, including a link to video of his February 26 comments. That, according to Trump, cost Republicans with seniors.
Ventura, Feb. 11, 2000: I can’t stay within a national party that, you know, that could well have Pat Buchanan as its presidential nominee. Stern, the son of Holocaust survivors, said he and Trump have discussed at length the “need to stand up against racism and intolerance”.
In response to Donald Trump’s delay in disavowing David Duke’s endorsement, Clint Smith ’10 reflects on a childhood experience from Louisiana in the era of David Duke.
Only days after feuding with Pope Francis, childishly mocking a rival and offering a patently ridiculous explanation for why he failed to denounce the support of a Ku Klux Klan leader immediately, Donald Trump unveiled a more serious and conciliatory side following his impressive multistate victories on Super Tuesday.
After narrowly losing a gubernatorial race in 1991, Duke mounted a campaign for President in 1992 but was undercut by similar but less extreme proposals by Pat Buchanan. Duke lost the election, but won fifty-five per cent of the white vote.
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Speaking from Louisiana, Mr Duke told The Independent that he would happy to serve in Mr Trump’s cabinet if he were elected and Mr Trump were to ask him. I think Bush – if David Duke runs, David Duke is going to get a lot of votes. I disavowed him right after that because I thought if there was any question on him, you take a look at Twitter.
