Donald Trump Blames Bad Earpiece for Not Condemning KKK Leader

“So I don’t know”, he told Mr Tapper. “To go neutral, to play Switzerland when you’re talking about the Klan?”

On Friday, Trump was asked by a reporter how he felt about being endorsed by Duke (as well as by several other klaverns across the country). “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about”. Duke says he is no longer a white supremacist, so Trump doesn’t have to answer the question. I hear various groups. He did not, and he said he didn’t know enough about them. I’d have to look. “They were there, CNN was there, and they gave me a lousy earpiece”. You may have groups in there that are totally fine – it would be very unfair.

You see, Trump merely misheard Tapper.

Trump did disavow Duke later in the day when pressed, but in a segment on the Today Show, Savannah Guthrie questioned Trump’s reluctance to condemn one of the biggest hate groups. “But I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action”. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him. So, I don’t know. “I disavow, okay?” Trump said during a press conference.

“Well, you’ve got David Duke just joined”.

“And for all – and just to push back, congresswoman, for all the problems that we may have with enthusiasm, I mean, we don’t have the problems that the Republican Party have in Donald Trump”, said former SC state representative Bakari Sellers, a Hillary Clinton supporter.

“I told them emphatically this morning that in the past we’ve always supported governors in this primary”, he said. The corporate media is more interested in ratings than decency, so there is little doubt that they will continue endlessly give Trump airtime. Cruz called Trump’s responses “really sad”, adding that the NY billionaire was “better than this”.

For someone who’s running for President, we can’t imagine that he didn’t know about the history of the KKK. “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable”. To say you know know about the Ku Klux Klan? On Monday, Trump tried to belatedly distance himself from Duke, but it was too late to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from getting a sudden burst of relevance in the increasingly-bizarre 2016 race.

“It’s breathtaking”, the morning show host said on Monday. “A simple “yes” would have worked”.

Soon after his CNN appearance on Sunday, Trump seemed to sense that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to vacillate on the issue of white supremacy, and soon tweeted a video of his earlier disavowal.

The last man to hold the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney, echoed Rubio’s feelings on Twitter. The former Republican presidential nominee, who has been among the most prominent Trump critics within his party, recently suggested the real estate mogul’s undisclosed tax returns contain a “bombshell”.