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Scarborough: Trump Comments on David Duke, KKK 'Disqualifying'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/29/2016 5:12:54 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

If Joe Scarborough were ever, as some have claimed, in the the tank for Donald Trump, he has officially climbed out as of this morning. On today's Morning Joe, reacting to the clip of Jake Tapper's interview, Scarborough called Trump's refusal to forthrightly reject the support of Klansman David Duke "disqualifying."

A bit later, Joe and Mika Brzezinski said that if Trump fails today to clean up the situation, Chris Christie "cannot stay with Donald Trump's campaign."

View the video here.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidduke; donaldtrump; joescarborough; kkk
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why was he suddenly being asked about David Duke in the first place?

Sounds to me like Trump simply declined to place his foot into the trap the media had laid out for him...


21 posted on 02/29/2016 5:20:19 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why was he suddenly being asked about David Duke in the first place?

Sounds to me like Trump simply declined to place his foot into the trap the media had laid out for him...


22 posted on 02/29/2016 5:20:20 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: BuckeyeGOP

Agree.. the show has been a 4 month infomercial for trump. It does look like it has turned.


23 posted on 02/29/2016 5:20:28 AM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: wiseprince

I’m pretty sure the video with Christi behind him was when he was first asked. Then over the weekend he was asked 3 times in an interview and said he didn’t know who duke and the ku klux klan were. I think that is the order it happened.


24 posted on 02/29/2016 5:21:53 AM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trump +1


25 posted on 02/29/2016 5:22:13 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A freeper this weekend stated that that show is much more fair to republicans and so I clicked on it today.

What utter B/S. fair to republicans my a@@. It was nothing but a hit piece.
Huckabee was right, why does Clinton not get asked about her relationship with Sen Byrd or black lives matter.
Trump on Friday disavowed Duke’s praising and I know because I watched it.

I would love to remember who that freeper was who said watch MSNBC because they had to be a troll.


26 posted on 02/29/2016 5:23:00 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Clean up" WHAT? Trump disavowed Duke on FRIDAY, after the very first question asked about it...

Trump "disavows" former KKK leader's support (with Christie) [YouTube 2/26/2016]

27 posted on 02/29/2016 5:23:05 AM PST by montag813
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To: kjam22

He had already disavowed it days before, why should he keep being asked about this crap.


28 posted on 02/29/2016 5:23:38 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: kjam22

It may have been a rerun from the 6:30 hour. Who knows? I flipped it on about 7:30 - 8:00am after the Today Show interview. Still, Joe’s thundering like Robert Mitchum’s preacher in Night of the Hunter was ludicrously over-the-top. For a guy who was implicated in Condit’s sex parties, he sure is holier-than-thou.


29 posted on 02/29/2016 5:23:39 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: manc

I didn’t say it was good to keep asking him. But you know... it’s the press... you HAVE to say that you disavow the ku klux klan. That is a no brainer....


30 posted on 02/29/2016 5:24:31 AM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: mac_truck

That’s true. They just want an association. Trump says I know nothing about this guy. Then later disavows or whatever. Now he’ll say I knew nothing about him until they mentioned him to be, pretty nasty guy


31 posted on 02/29/2016 5:24:47 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why should it follow that accepting an individual's or group's vote constitutes an embrace of their principles or agenda? Isn't it more logical that those voting for a candidate embrace his principles and agenda?
32 posted on 02/29/2016 5:25:07 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: montag813

Thanks for posting! I couldn’t find it myself.

It appears from the video that he was already fed up about this. I think Trump hates the media - as well he should - and it’s showing.


33 posted on 02/29/2016 5:25:28 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trump should have given a full-throated denial to an endorsement from the terrorist wing of the DemocRAT Party.


34 posted on 02/29/2016 5:26:34 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Three questions:

Guess who dominates the news cycle for the next 24 hours?

Guess who doesn’t dominate the news cycle for the next 24 hours?

Guess who’s poll #s go up in the next 24 hours?

Not saying it’s right, just pointing out the strategy and outcome...


35 posted on 02/29/2016 5:26:46 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not disqualifying but telling.


36 posted on 02/29/2016 5:27:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: kjam22

you HAVE to say that you disavow the ku klux klan

=============================================================OMG you have been told by me and others just in this thread he DID DISAVOW it.
WOW

The only reason people keep bringing this up is either because they are too dumb to understand or using it as an hit piece.


37 posted on 02/29/2016 5:27:03 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: kjam22

Trump stumbled. But that doesn’t not make him sympathetic to the KKK. Truth be told, he was just reluctant to reject the support of anyone. He is not PC.


38 posted on 02/29/2016 5:27:34 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

Yea, that’s their trick...see, Trump policies are so out there even the Klan embraces them. This is just the media lying and misinforming like they always do


39 posted on 02/29/2016 5:28:13 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: manc

today was the day they turned. They’ve been in Trumps pocket for the past 4 months....and that is undeniable.

see my post above about this.


40 posted on 02/29/2016 5:28:26 AM PST by BuckeyeGOP
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