Trump Refuses To Disavow KKK and other Hate Groups

[Koolaid_Man]

:lmao keep it coming Republicans



https://youtube/BwB43pKJwb0

[rmt]

He has disavowed it several times and they keep playing the same video.

[DMX7]

His ear piece wasn't working well... That's what he said.

[Warlord23]

He has disavowed it several times and they keep playing the same video.


His ear piece wasn't working well... That's what he said.

Trump on Friday:

David Duke endorsed me? OK, all right. I disavow, OK?

Trump on Sunday:


1. Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? ...
2. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists.
3. Honestly, I don't know David Duke. I don't believe I've ever met him. I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just don't know anything about him.


So the guy who says he has the "world's best memory" knew David Duke 2 days ago, heard his name well enough in the CNN interview to repeat it thrice (so much for the ear piece explanation), but totally forgot who he was despite the interviewer reminding him multiple times that the David Duke in question was a former KKK grand wizard?

What rational explanation do Trump supporters have for this sorry episode, except that this might have to do with the fact that a number of Southern states vote on Super Tuesday?

[Splits]

Trump on Friday:


Trump on Sunday:


So the guy who says he has the "world's best memory" knew David Duke 2 days ago, heard his name well enough in the CNN interview to repeat it thrice (so much for the ear piece explanation), but totally forgot who he was despite the interviewer reminding him multiple times that the David Duke in question was a former KKK grand wizard?

What rational explanation do Trump supporters have for this sorry episode, except that this might have to do with the fact that a number of Southern states vote on Super Tuesday?

And he got Jeff Sessions (R-KKK) endorsement yesterday :lol

The same Jeff Sessions that was nominated for a Federal judgeship but was rejected during his confirmation hearings because he thought the KKK was "OK until I found out they smoked pot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana)."

[DMX7]

Trump on Friday:


Trump on Sunday:


So the guy who says he has the "world's best memory" knew David Duke 2 days ago, heard his name well enough in the CNN interview to repeat it thrice (so much for the ear piece explanation), but totally forgot who he was despite the interviewer reminding him multiple times that the David Duke in question was a former KKK grand wizard?

What rational explanation do Trump supporters have for this sorry episode, except that this might have to do with the fact that a number of Southern states vote on Super Tuesday?

He's just trying to say (inarticulately) that he doesn't know much about David Duke. It's really not that complicated.

[Trill Clinton]

And he got Jeff Sessions (R-KKK) endorsement yesterday :lol

The same Jeff Sessions that was nominated for a Federal judgeship but was rejected during his confirmation hearings because he thought the KKK was "OK until I found out they smoked pot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana)."



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trump has all these racist rednecks supporting a pro choice/pro gay billionaire yankee liberal, what a time to be alive!:lol

[hater]

:lmao democrats and repugs joining forces to smear The Donald. They are terrified. Faghots

[spankadelphia]

:lolImplying anyone gives a shit about the left and their stupid little "gotcha!" game. They are fucking desperate.

[spankadelphia]

The left doesn't have to disavow their crazies (Weather Underground, Alinsky, Black Panthers, the fucking Unabomber, Antifa). That is only reserved for their opposition, who will always be held to a higher standard than themselves.

[DMX7]

Trump had already answered the question about Duke's endorsement... the media, in general, really doesn't talk about substantive issues. It's hugely to blame for our current state of affairs. They are more interested in the name calling drama than anything of substance.

[DarrinS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA

[boutons_deux]

:lolImplying anyone gives a shit about the left and their stupid little "gotcha!" game. They are fucking desperate.

The REPUGs are jumping on Donny for the KKK angle, which is hilarious since the Repugs have been pandering to, suckering racists, since Goldwater.

[mingus]

Trump knows that the question itself is horseshit.

In all actuality, it hurts his electability to do what he did, perhaps, than to say, "yes, the KKK is a POS". He turns more people away by doing what he did--because the left wont acknowledge the stupidity/unfairness/bias of the question, and will spin it as Trump loves racists"-- than the amount of voters he is keeping or acquiring. Probably not a smart move politically speaking, but I give Trump props for trolling the guy & Lefties for his question.

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm no trump fan boy but this KKK stuff is Boutons level stupid.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I'm no trump fan boy but this KKK stuff is Boutons level stupid.

Several GOP leaders have disavowed him on the basis of this. Then there is you.

[CosmicCowboy]

Fuzzy level stupid too. Non-story.

[CosmicCowboy]

When did Fuzzy Stupid start believing everything "several GOP leaders" said?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

When did Fuzzy Stupid start believing everything "several GOP leaders" said?

I didn't. I brought them up because they are part of your team. I'm trying to communicate with you, dimwit, so I consider your preferences.

Paul Ryan is who he is. You are whatever you are too, fattie.

[CosmicCowboy]

mainstream republicans will say and do anything to slow the Trump avalanche. You REALLY that stupid or just want to argue with me?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

mainstream republicans will say and do anything to slow the Trump avalanche. You REALLY that stupid or just want to argue with me?

Actually they had been vacillating talking about party loyalty the week before. Then he panders to the KKK and several GOP leaders denounce him. If you think the split is good for his chances you are a fool particularly as I'm trying to point out in the bigger picture.

You have shown yourself to not think things through so carry on. I'm going to go do something else.

[Nbadan]

GOP establishment loves Trump so much that they are rolling out Romney tomorrow...

Mitt Romney to Lay Out Case Against Donald Trump in Speech Thursday
Source: Bloomberg News March 2, 2016 — 4:18 PM CST


The rapidly intensifying effort by the Republican establishment to dislodge Donald Trump from the top of the party's presidential nominating race will star 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who is preparing a speech for Thursday when he'll lay out his case against the front-runner.
With Trump's convincing victories on Tuesday, the single biggest day of voting in the Republican race, Romney was motivated to make a more formal case against him in hopes of keeping him from coalescing more support, according to a Republican source familiar with Romney's plans. Romney has voiced criticism for Trump in recent months, including his attack last week on the New York businessman's refusal to release his tax returns.
Romney doesn't believe Trump is the right person to lead the party, the Republican source said. A number of mainstream Republicans are falling in line with Trump, and Romney wants to speak up before more people go that route, the source said.
While making the case against Trump at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Student Forum at the University of Utah, Romney will not endorse one of his opponents, two people familiar with the former Massachusetts governor's plans said. Romney will, however, praise Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and Ohio Governor John Kasich. Romney’s comments will be focused on “the state of the race,” likely echoing past criticism of Trump for failing to release his tax returns.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-02/republicans-wrestle-with-trump-after-dominant-super-tuesday-wins

[tlongII]

Actually they had been vacillating talking about party loyalty the week before. Then he panders to the KKK and several GOP leaders denounce him. If you think the split is good for his chances you are a fool particularly as I'm trying to point out in the bigger picture.

You have shown yourself to not think things through so carry on. I'm going to go do something else.

Trump never "pandered" to the KKK.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Trump never "pandered" to the KKK.

Refusing to denounce them is about the closest thing that a presidential candidate has done to support them since George Wallace.

[DMX7]

Refusing to denounce them is about the closest thing that a presidential candidate has done to support them since George Wallace.

He denounced the David Duke endorsement the day before, and he couldn't clearly hear the question that has brought about all the controversy.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

He denounced the David Duke endorsement the day before, and he couldn't clearly hear the question that has brought about all the controversy.

Not that I've seen. I've seen where he denounced them before since 1991 but not the day before. That is what makes his comment about "not knowing anything about Duke" so obviously pandering. It was the southern primary after all.

[Splits]

White Nationalist Scores Press Credentials, Interview With Trump Jr. (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/james-edwards-trump-press-credentials)


ByALLEGRA KIRKLAND (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/allegra)PublishedMARCH 2, 2016, 11:31 AM EST

The host of an “unapologetically pro-White” radio program received press credentials from the Donald Trump campaign at a rally last weekend in Memphis, Tennessee, according to a blog post flagged by Little Green Footballs (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45673_The_Donald_Trump_Campaign_Gave_Media_Credent ials_to_a_Notorious_White_Supremacist).

James Edwards, the host of the “Political Cesspool” show, wrote a glowing blog post (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/political-cesspool-host-james-edwards-reports-inside-donald-trumps-press-pen/) describing his positive experience at the Millington Regional Airport event, where he recorded an episode of his show from within the press pen. Photos interspersed throughout the post show Edwards beaming with a Trump media badge pinned to his suit jacket, as well as other reporters in the cordoned-off press area who he describes as “the enforcers of political correctness.”
“I must admit that this rally lived up to my expectation,” Edwards wrote in the post.


“I’ve been saying for years on the radio that the majority of Americans fundamentally agree with us on the issues and that the neocons were generals of a phantom army," he continued. "I am being proven right. Our people just needed a viable candidate and they’ve identified Trump as that man. There is no doubt that Trump’s populism and nationalism is galvanizing our nation and may change the course of American history for the better right before our very eyes.”


Edwards also notes that he will air a previously recorded 20-minute interview with Donald Trump, Jr. on his show on Saturday.


The Trump campaign did not immediately respond Wednesday to TPM's request for comment.


The Political Cesspool’s mission statement (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/mission/) outlines a hard-right ideology that rejects “abortion, feminism, and homosexuality” and calls “to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.” Archived blog posts celebrate Edwards’ efforts to preserve Confederate monuments (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/about/) in Memphis, Tennessee and refer to interracial sex as “white genocide (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/hollywood-promotes-white-genocide/).”


Edwards is openly dismissive of the concept of racism—he is the author a book called “Racism, Schmacism”—though his blog posts frequently extoll the natural superiority of white Americans.


He shared an op-ed from the Jamaican Observer in praise of slavery in an August blog post,commenting (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/jamaican-writer-praises-slavery/), “For blacks in the Americas, slavery is the greatest thing that ever happened to them.”


Trump has faced intensifying scrutiny for his reluctance to disavow white supremacists who have publicly embraced his campaign. A white nationalist super PAC has launched robocalls (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-robocall-super-tuesday-william-daniel-johnson) in several early voting states urging voters to vote for the real estate mogul to prevent the “white race” from “dying out,” while David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, has called electing Trump “the best thing we can do (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-duke-donald-trump_us_56d5d6f4e4b0bf0dab33808a).”


After initially telling CNN that he was unfamiliar with the KKK (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-resfuses-distance-white-supremecist)—an oversight he blamed on a “lousy earpiece (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-today-show-david-duke)”—Trump “disavowed” the group and Duke several times this week.


Still, the campaign allowed Edwards, who has hosted Duke on his show, to receive press credentials at the Memphis rally.


The GOP candidate often devotes several minutes of his rallies to railing against the “dishonest” reporters covering his campaign, and his staffers have denied access (http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/21/media/donald-trump-press-credentials/) to journalists fromUnivision (http://www.mediaite.com/online/univision-reporters-denied-access-to-trump-event-in-florida/), Fusion, the Des Moines Register, and the Huffington Post for what they see as overly critical coverage.

Trump requires the press to be sequestered in a gated-off section at all campaign events. When a Time magazine photographer stepped outside the media pen to take pictures of a group of protesters at a rally this week, he was tackled to the ground (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-morris-tackled-secret-service-trump-rally) by a Secret Service agent. At the same Virginia event, Trump vowed to “open libel laws (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/29/trump-taking-aim-at-the-press-vows-again-to-open-libel-laws/),” making it easier to sue journalists.

[Wild Cobra]

He has disavowed it several times and they keep playing the same video.

Losers on the left, and they think they got something.

Seems like Trump answered it well. Trump didn't "refused" to disavow. He said he needed more information before making that determination.

Stupid libtards...

THE OP IS A LIE PEOPLE...

Par for the course here...

Normal lies by the OP of the thread.

[Wild Cobra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA

LOL...

It's OK when the KKK member is a lefty...

[Wild Cobra]

When did Fuzzy Stupid start believing everything "several GOP leaders" said?
When it agrees with his confirmation bias, like all other matters.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Losers on the left, and they think they got something.

Seems like Trump answered it well. Trump didn't "refused" to disavow. He said he needed more information before making that determination.

Stupid libtards...

THE OP IS A LIE PEOPLE...

Par for the course here...

Normal lies by the OP of the thread.


Tapper, Feb. 28: I want to ask you about the Anti-Defamation League, which this week called on you to publicly condemn unequivocally the racism of former KKK grand wizard David Duke, who recently said that voting against you at this point would be treason to your heritage. Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke and say that you don’t want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election?

Trump: Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don’t know.


Tapper: OK. I mean, I’m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but…

Trump: I don’t know any — honestly, I don’t know David Duke. I don’t believe I have ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him. And I just don’t know anything about him.

Here is Trump in 2000:


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. And now the latest word, I hear he’s getting support from David Duke. Well, I can’t be part of that.

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Lauer, Feb. 14, 2000: When you say the party is self-destructing, what do you see as the biggest problem with the Reform Party right now?

Trump: Well, you’ve got David Duke just joined — a bigot, a racist, a problem. I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party. Buchanan’s a disaster as we’ve, you know, covered. Jesse’s a terrific guy who just left the party. And he, you know, it’s unfortunate, but he just left the party. He’s going to be doing his Independence Party from Minnesota.


New York Times, Feb. 14, 2000: Mr. Trump painted a fairly dark picture of the Reform Party in his statement, noting the role of Mr. Buchanan, along with the roles of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and Lenora Fulani, the former standard-bearer of the New Alliance Party and an advocate of Marxist-Leninist politics.

“The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani,” he said in his statement. “This is not company I wish to keep.”


King, Nov. 19, 1991: Did the David Duke thing bother you? Fifty-five percent of the whites in Louisiana voted for him.

Trump: I hate —

King: Four hundred New Yorkers contributed.

Trump: I hate seeing what it represents, but I guess it just shows there’s a lot of hostility in this country. There’s a tremendous amount of hostility in the United States.

King: Anger?

Trump: It’s anger. I mean, that’s an anger vote. People are angry about what’s happened. People are angry about the jobs. If you look at Louisiana, they’re really in deep trouble. When you talk about the East Coast — it’s not the East Coast. It’s the East Coast, the middle coast, the West Coast —

King: If he runs and Pat Buchanan runs [for president in 1992], might you see a really divided vote?

Trump: Well, I think if they run, or even if David Duke — I mean, George Bush was very, very strong against David Duke. I think if he had it to do again, he might not have gotten involved in that campaign because I think David Duke now, if he runs, takes away almost exclusively Bush votes and then a guy like Cuomo runs — I think Cuomo can win the election.

King: But Bush morally had to come out against him.

Trump: I think Bush had to come out against him. I think Bush — if David Duke runs, David Duke is going to get a lot of votes. Whether that be good or bad, David Duke is going to get a lot of votes. Pat Buchanan — who really has many of the same theories, except it’s in a better package — Pat Buchanan is going to take a lot of votes away from George Bush. So if you have these two guys running, or even one of them running, I think George Bush could be in big trouble.

The earpiece excuse does not explain those quotes. Condemning it after the southern primary is just kinda the point of pandering.

[tlongII]

Here is Trump in 2000:



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The earpiece excuse does not explain those quotes. Condemning it after the southern primary is just kinda the point of pandering.

Sorry dude, that is not pandering.

[tlongII]

Not pandering.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Sorry dude, that is not pandering.

According to you. Youre not exactly objective so who gives a shit what you think about something that denigrates your master.

[tlongII]

According to you. Youre not exactly objective so who gives a shit what you think about something that denigrates your master.


pan-der


[pan-der]



noun, Also, panderer


1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.


2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.


3. a go-between in amorous intrigues.


verb (used without object)


4. to act as a pander; cater basely:
to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.


verb (used with object)


5. to act as a pander for.

[tlongII]

Not pandering. But you know that.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

pan-der


[pan-der]



noun, Also, panderer


1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.


2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.


3. a go-between in amorous intrigues.


verb (used without object)


4. to act as a pander; cater basely:
to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.


verb (used with object)


5. to act as a pander for.

Goddamn your dumb. Definitions 2 and 4 clearly apply.

[boutons_deux]

LOL...

It's OK when the KKK member is a lefty...

He wasn't a lefty. He was a DINO, serving in Congress way before, and way after, southern RACIST DEMs were recruited to be, switched to being southern RACIST Repugs.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Pandering is the act of expressing one's views in accordance with the likes of a group to which one is attempting to appeal. The term is most notably associated with politics. In pandering, the views one is expressing are merely for the purpose of drawing support up to and including votes and do not necessarily reflect one's personal values.

Pandering is essentially a reaction of panic in elected officials who must either tailor their views to public opinion or risk losing their existing or potential seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandering_(politics)

[tlongII]

Pandering is the act of expressing one's views in accordance with the likes of a group to which one is attempting to appeal. The term is most notably associated with politics. In pandering, the views one is expressing are merely for the purpose of drawing support up to and including votes and do not necessarily reflect one's personal values.

Pandering is essentially a reaction of panic in elected officials who must either tailor their views to public opinion or risk losing their existing or potential seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandering_(politics)

Since Trump clearly didn't do that he was not pandering. But you know that.