I mean, I don’t know what group you’re talking about. “I disavowed them on Friday”, Trump said in a phone interview.
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After the former “grand wizard” of the white supremacist group urged followers to support Trump, the Republican candidate declined to overtly disavow Duke during an interview Sunday.
Tapper asked Trump whether he would disavow Duke and white supremacist groups that are supporting his presidential campaign.
In an interview with NBC’s “Today” show on Monday, Trump blamed a poor earpiece: “I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece they gave me”, he told NBC.
Folks from this area were surprised to hear David Duke, a one-time former Republican state representative, back in the headlines. “And I disavowed him before at a major news conference”.
Though Trump has said multiple times that he disavows both Duke and the KKK, he is still being called upon to explain the remarks he made on CNN Sunday.
“When you say you endorse someone you’re basically endorsing the person and basically people get the impression you’re endorsing everything about them”, Duke told Fox News Radio’s “The Alan Colmes Show” Monday night.
The internet campaign follows criticism for Trump over his refusal to condemn his strong following within the Ku Klux Klan. “I disavow, OK”, Trump said. They said: ‘Oh, we never looked at your Twitter account.
TRUMP: I don’t know any – honestly, I don’t know David Duke.
“Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage”, Mr Duke said, referring to Mr Trump’s rivals. Ted Cruz of Texas has 15 percent.
A review of the transcript of Donald Trump’s CNN interview revealed that his excuse of a bad earpiece leading him to not disavow the KKK was a lie.
Donald Trump once boasted he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in NY and not lose any followers, but the 2016 GOP presidential candidate may have finally found the limit to what many of his supporters will tolerate. “So I don’t know”.
This is far from the first time that Romney and Trump have clashed.
“He’s attaching himself to Trump so he can make himself relevant, because he is not relevant”, said Dubos.
The business mogul was endorsed by the former Klan leader on Thursday.
Many Washington Republicans are increasingly open about their dismay at the prospect of Trump winning the GOP nomination. Sen.
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“How are we going to grow our party with a nominee that refuses to condemn the Ku Klux Klan?” he asked.
