Discussion for article #246581
No snark for this one, just outraged disgust. This is an astonishing new low for this country’s politics. It’s the equivalent, in protected speech, of shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. Just unbelievable.
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So why would he disavow support from a key constituency? (Particularly if he’s counting on his racist constituency to help him defeat Clinton and her massive support among “those people”?)
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Those guys standing over there in hooded white sheets holding a rally for me?
Don’t think I know who they are or anything about them. Send me their resumes and life stories and I’ll check them out.
When did not knowing something ever stop Donald Trump from expressing an opinion?
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“I’m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here,” Tapper said.
“Honestly, I don’t know David Duke,” Trump said. “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.”
Coddling the KKK is not Presidential, Donny boy. This is Trump’s Achilles heel, and my hope is that Hillary stomps on it early and often and crushes the Racist who would be POTUS.
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Historically high (2008 levels) turnout of African Americans in SC Dem primary. Jan Brewer in AZ just endorsed Trump. Trump refuses to repudiate Duke.
He is going to be the nominee and he is going to get beaten like a gong. Either Bernie or Hillary could take him apart: on social media, the debate platform, TV.
The GOP is over as a major presidential party until at least 2020, more likely 2024.
Well-played, Mitch. Well…played.
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You’re kidding, right? Birther, in case you forgot. Trump refuses to distance himself? That’s like distancing yourself from your own shadow.
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“I don’t know anything about David Duke,” he said. “I don’t know what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. I don’t know. I don’t know, did he endorse me, or what’s going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.”
Translation from Donaldspeak:
I know exactly what you’re talking about, and I very much want the kinds of voters who identify with David Duke and the KKK to continue supporting me, so I’m not going to disavow those groups. At the same time, I realize I would lose far, far more votes by directly embracing them. Thus, I will say that I know nothing about any of it and try to play victim as if these questions were unexpected and/or unfair.
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Finally the media is starting to report what’s going here. He’s re-tweeting tweets from Nazi organizations. White supremacists are robo-callng for him. This needs to be headline on TPM and other news organizations. This is very dangerous!! All the people who glorify him including people like Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough should be held responsible for this. Hey Chris, his need sending a message of nationalism, it’s White Christian Nationalism. There’s a reason he goes after everybody except Putin. The more the media ignores this the more it is accepted. This is not a joke, it’s not entertaining, its very scary. Even Josh hasn’t given this the attention it deserves. Maybe the media is waiting for Trump to win the nomination before they discuss this but the longer they wait the more the cancer spreads. The establishment republicans are learning this the hard way.
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You all missed the real headline: Trump Refuses To Distance Himself From KKK
It’s not just David Duke or white supremacists – Tapper asked him specifically about the KKK. There is no fucking way he needs to research the KKK and there is no way it’s unfair for him to answer. This is out and out racist.
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If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit. Trump is a one trick pony. And, plus, also, too, racial hatred is Trump’s only consistent idea.
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The white supremacists are coming out of the woodworks comfortable they’re safe in the present environment largely thanks to Trump.
I hope Hillary and the DOJ are taking down names so they can be dealt with at the appropriate time should they violate anyone’s civil rights.
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Exactly. It’s as if someone told you that you had just been endorsed by ISIS and Al Quaeda and you said, “well, let me do some research on those groups and get back to you.”
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Ah, the Southern strategy is alive and well.
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Did you see how the AP article on exit polls failed to note that Hillary won the white vote in SC? And the male vote?
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in keeping with tradition, brown shirts and black shirts, white robes will now be the official uniforms of the security staff for Donnie Dimwit at all rallies…
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Trump makes Saral Palin seem circumspect.
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Duplicity and/or Senility?
You decide.
We’ll take hostility as a given.
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Terribly
Racist,
UnAmerican,
Mentally ill,
People
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