Posted on 02/28/2016 10:34:00 AM PST by kristinn
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump disavowed white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke in a tweet Sunday.
"As I stated at the press conference on Friday regarding David Duke- I disavow."
Earlier Sunday morning, Trump avoided a question about whether he'd condemn Duke's racism.
The GOP front-runner said on CNN's "State of the Union" he didn't know anything about Duke and would need to research his connections before deciding whether he would condemn them.
"I have to look at the group. I don't know what group you're talking about," he said. "You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about."
Yet more “when did you stop beating your wife...” attacks
Duke is obviously on somebody’s payroll to undermine right wing candidates, he knows his “endorsement” is toxic
Katy Tur Verified account @KatyTurNBC 1h1 hour ago
I asked Trump last Thursday in the spin room about Duke and White supremacist support. He "disavowed" it. He also "disavowed" Duke on Friday
The communist party USA endorsed Obama and will undoubtedly endorse the democrat, as will the Moslem Brotherhood.
Trumps son in law is Jewish, does anyone and I think his grandchild from that son-in-law will be raised Jewish. Does anyone really think Trump is pro KKK. Really???? Good grief, CNN is back to being Clinton News Network on this one.
Why didn’t he just do this when Todd asked his question? It would have avoided needless speculation.
I call FAKE on that Trump tweet!
First, I’m fairly sure our Donald has never used or spelled the word “disavowed.”
Second, where’s the pithy word at the end?
BAD!
SAD!
Tapper said groups. It was “groups” that was the problem. The msm likes to throw in any groups that are anti-Obama.
One good reason. He didn’t at the time want to play stupid liberal games to their satisfaction.
Y'know, because he's almost half black. And everyone and anyone who voted for him is a racist a-hole.African-American voters see court fight as affront to Obama
“Where has the man been living to not know who David Duke is? Not to mention having to try to figure out if the group was a good group or not does the man do no research whatsoever. But then again he cant even tell us how many years has been audited in a row he just throws random numbers each time he speaks so I guess ultimately he just refuses to be pinned down with little things like facts”
You pick up on things real fast sparky. “refuses to be pinned down” is the operant phrase. He isn’t going to be Charlie Brown kicking the football for you and I like him for that.
Businessman, new York, golf in Scotland, when does he have time to study a worm like Duke?
Fave bible verse,,,why, he likes a lot of them equally.
Release my taxes for Crubio to pore through and try to gin up a controversy? Yeah, he’ll get around to it when the audit is over. So does the govt speed thru his audit? LOL
He isn’t going to hand you ammo, unlike the other dumb asses.
Now if we can get Clinton to disavow the Communist Party U.S.A. and their union supporters.
They have to make an overt act before you can remove them. They are democrats so they are protected.
So he gets off the set and asks one of his advisors to brief/remind him who David Duke is and what this questioning was all about. He gets briefed and releases this statement.
What this demonstrates is that Donald does not judge until he has been informed.
Now some are saying that Donald knew about Duke way back in 2000 and they cite discredited media sources. So they’re intent on using their own discredited sources to build up their own caricature of Donald as a liar.
So easy to see who has more credibility here. Trump haters are scumbags.
“Trump wouldnt answer on the spot because he was afraid there was a hidden gotcha in there somehow.”
Exactly, and they hate him for it. Normal pols go walking right into the ambush. This is a fun election.
Exactly! And that's another reason why he will be a good president. Right now, there's no upside to answering these potentially gotcha questions immediately. And by refusing to answer, he gets the media to prattle on about it to the exclusion of his adversaries BS. BTW, just wonder how much Fox News was paid for their hour-long Cruze extravaganza? I thought they had become the Boobio Channel?
Cruz? It’s Cruzbio at this point, IMO. They’re twins. Career politician Cruz has been called home to GOPe and he’s carrying their water now. Ugly, ugly stuff.
Calm down, Rubio.
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