Posted on 08/25/2016 6:56:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump said Thursday he doesn't want the support of white supremacists amid accusations from rival Hillary Clinton that he's allowing hate to go "mainstream."
"Do you want white supremacists to vote for you?" New Hampshire's WMUR asked the GOP presidential nominee in Manchester, where Trump held an event Thursday.
"No, I don't at all, not at all," Trump responded, as highlighted by a CNN reporter.
"This is not about hate, this is about love," Trump continued. "We love our country. We want our country to come back. We want our country to be strong again."
Clinton launched into an attack on Trump Thursday, going after the so-called alt-right movement and invoking Trump's new hire of Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as his campaign chief to argue that Trump is bringing "a hate movement mainstream."
"The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the alt-right. A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party," Clinton said during her speech in Reno, Nev.
The alt-right movement is comprised of hardcore conservatives opposed to immigration and globalism, which is usually associated with white nationalism. Clinton on Thursday also linked Trump to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who supports Trump, and the KKK.
Trump brushed off Duke's support early this year but caught flak for not more forcefully disavowing him, with some accusing him of not wanting to turn off white supremacists who may be supporting him.
"I don't know anything about David Duke," Trump famously claimed during an interview on CNN in February when pressed on whether he'd decline the support of Duke and other white supremacists.
"I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," Trump told Jake Tapper then. "I know nothing about white supremacists."
C’mon Bannon. Tell your candidate to stop accepting this ridiculous premise. Pushback and ask Hillary to denounce Black Lives Matter, New Black Panthers, La Raza, and Muslim Brotherhood. These are racist, hate groups too.
He was asked a direct question and he gave a direct answer.
I think we just need to know... if Trump is such a racist, misogynist, anti-gay sexist.... why did hiLIARy and BJc go to Trumps wedding????
The Democrat party needs us to be racists and if we aren't, they will make us racist- one way or another.
Why is white supremacy bad but La Raza, Islam, and New Black Panthers OK?
Here! Here!
All Votes Matter...
Hillary will be nothing but an extension of him and his goals..
Hillary needs to be asked if the Muslim Brotherhood supports her? Huma's mother is involved with that group, has she donated to Hillary? I read where she accepted $20 K . from the KKK...she needs to be asked if that is correct.
Title: Oh, yes you do. You want EVERY vote you can get. Our Constitutional Republic is riding on it.
“opposed to immigration”
A slanderous straw man.
IIRC, the head of the KKK endorsed Hillary! Not kidding.
I’m wondering when Gloria Allred is going to surface from the depths with some broad who will claim the Trump sexually assaulted her.
Make no mistake .. the true HATE groups mentioned upthread will gladly unleash a caucasian holocaust the moment they think we're weak enough to surrender to it.
RE “White supremacists”
They have a right to their opinions and political voice, just like any other group in this country.
Just because the Leftards freak out about it - or use it as a wedge - doesn’t invalidate their votes.
Hell, there’s the Communist Party, Revolutionary Worker’s Party, Maoist Party, etc., and other Democrat subversive groups, and THEY have a right to vote and be heard.
That’s the thing about the First Amendment... it’s there to make sure all voices are heard.
Whether the Left likes it or not.
SOmetimes, freedom’s a bitch, ain’t it...
...IIRC, the head of the KKK endorsed Hillary!...
IIRC, The Communist Party USA Endorsed the Felon running for office.
“Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign.” #FlashbackFriday
I know what your saying but in his answer I don’t see him accepting a premise. I am sure he would have answered the same if was asked “Do you want New Black Panthers to vote for you?”
“I’m wondering when Gloria Allred is going to surface from the depths with some broad who will claim the Trump sexually assaulted her.”
October..
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