It just keeps getting better and better: Trump claims not to know who David Duke is

[Dafinch]

[h=2]Donald Trump declines to disavow David Duke and the KKK[/h]Updated by Matthew Yglesias on February 28, 2016, 11:00 a.m. ET @mattyglesias matt@vox.com


Appearing this morning on Jake Tapper's State of the Union, Donald Trump was asked to disavow support from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and other white supremacists and politely declined.
Trump, being a cautious sort and not one to just talk without gathering all the facts and giving a matter serious consideration, said he would have to do more research because at the moment he lacked sufficient information to disavow them.

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The question arose when Tapper asked Trump about the Anti-Defamation League's request that he disavow Duke's endorsement and that of other white supremacist groups.


Here's their exchange which you can watch here:

Trump: I have to look at the group. I mean, I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I'd have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong. You may have groups in there that are totally fine -- it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know.
Tapper: Ok. I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but —
Trump: 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.


This is the kind of situation where Trump's lack of support from the broader institutions of American conservatism is going to end up hurting him.
It's not inconceivable to me that these remarks could be spun away as simply a clumsy answer to a hostile and somewhat unfair line of questioning if there were people out there eager to do the spinning.

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But because most of the conservative movement has decided it doesn't like Trump, conservative pundits are piling on with criticism of these remarks. And that makes it entirely kosher for "objective" journalists to report as a factual, non-contested story that Donald Trump is endorsed by white supremacist organizations who he has refused to disavow.
Here's the American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis, for example.

KKK, David Duke, Putin, butchers of Beijing, Mussolini. Hmm. Can't wait to see to whom POTUS Trump would give Presidential Medal of Freedom
— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) February 28, 2016​

And here's Republican media consultant Rick Wilson:

Guess we're gonna see what 99% black turnout looks like in the Fallhttps://t.co/6WTm4Ug8sA
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 28, 2016​

At any rate, Trump has certainly said enough things that enough people were sure would make his campaign implode that I am not offering any predictions about the impact of these remarks on the primaries on Super Tuesday. But it's certainly an indication that he would be a toxic element in a general election.

How the fuck can people support a guy as experienced and intelligent as Trump who utters in public the remark above? We gonna party like it's 1964 come Election Day, Repubs, bend over, and assume the position.

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[Willie99]

and HC has to suffer financially

fucking idiot, does he even post something about policy positions?

duuuufinch is one of those dudes I smile at and then walk away from at social events

 

[Dafinch]

and HC has to suffer financially

fucking idiot, does he even post something about policy positions?

duuuufinch is one of those dudes I smile at and then walk away from at social events

No, you're a fucking moron who goes into a thread started by somebody they don't like to tell them they are ignoring them-which you just did-and haven't a clue how fucking stupid that is. You're not called "Witless Willie" for nothing...

 

[roadreeler57]

He disavowed Duke a couple days ago where have you been?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yseotd_fxWY

 

[Dafinch]

He disavowed Duke a couple days ago where have you been?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yseotd_fxWY

Why don't you pull your head outta your ass and read what happened TODAY, not "a couple of days ago?" He's getting getting attacked by Dems and Repubs alike because YOU have such a firm grasp on the issue, right? Fucking moron....why don't you crow some more about Trump financing 70% of his campaign when he's been saying that he was financing all of it?

 

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Alabama senator Jeff Sessions also endorsed Trump. They are pictured together as Sessions talks during Trump's rally in Madison, Alabama

 

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Sessions, Trump said, is 'a great man' and 'the expert as far as I'm concerned' on border issues


'When I get jeff Sessions, that means a lot to me,' he said, noting that the 69-year-old had never made a presidential endorsement in his long political career.

The 20-year Senate veteran has been a major opponent of what his fellow conservatives call President Barack Obama's 'amnesty,' extended to millions of illegal immigration through executive orders that don't require the say-so of Congress.

 

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[h=1]It's Getting Better EVERYDAY[/h]

 

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[h=1]Black - Wonderful Life[/h]

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Donald Trump dismissed a group of six Black Lives Matter protesters who disrupted a massive rally in Madison, Alabama (pictured), saying: 'We have to love everybody. All lives matter. All lives matter'

 

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[h=1]Sweet Home Alabama[/h]

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Trump, pictured at a rally in Madison, Alabama on Sunday, took the stage while the Lynyrd Skynyrd rock anthem 'Sweet Home Alabama' blasted over concert speakers. 'I could listen to that music all day long,' he said. 'All day long!'


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"An American Trilogy"

Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old things they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away
In Dixieland I take my stand to live and die in Dixie
Cause Dixieland, that's where I was born
Early Lord one frosty morning
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland

Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on

So hush little baby
Don't you cry
You know your daddy's bound to die
But all my trials, Lord will soon be over

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[roadreeler57]

Why don't you pull your head outta your ass and read what happened TODAY, not "a couple of days ago?" He's getting getting attacked by Dems and Repubs alike because YOU have such a firm grasp on the issue, right? Fucking moron....why don't you crow some more about Trump financing 70% of his campaign when he's been saying that he was financing all of it?

None of these fruitless attacks are going to hurt Trump....When you see how big he wins tomorrow youll crawl back into your hole for a couple days & then look for some more shit to throw into the fan...

 

[The Guesser]

THe next Couple of Clown Show Events. Wonder if Donnie will have the guts to show up and face his biggest Fear, Megyn Kelly. Maybe we'll get lucky and Puke Cruz will be out by march 3.



MARCH 3, 2016

[h=2]Detroit, Michigan[/h]Location: The Fox Theater
Aired On: Fox News Channel

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MARCH 10, 2016

[h=2]Miami, Florida[/h]Sponsors: CNN, Salem Media Group, The Washington Times
Location: University of Miami
Aired On: CNN

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[The Guesser]

Trump Mascot and Pet Dog Joe Scarborough with a rare show of guts:

Trump’s feigned ignorance about the KKK raises disturbing questions

Saved to Reading Li​

By Joe Scarborough February 29 at 12:06 AM
They weren’t hard questions to answer.
“Do you condemn David Duke? And the Ku Klux Klan?”
A simple “yes” would have worked. But on Sunday, Donald Trump swatted away the easy answers and instead feigned ignorance about the KKK and its most infamous Grand Wizard. The Republican frontrunner’s failure to provide what should have been a simple answer has raised even more disturbing questions about the man who is on course to lock down the GOP’s nomination for president.

The first question is why would Trump pretend to be so ignorant of American history that he refused to pass judgment on the Ku Klux Klan before receiving additional information? What kind of facts could possibly mitigate a century of sins committed by a violent hate group whose racist crimes terrorized Americans and placed a shameful blot on this nation’s history?
Why would the same man who claims to have “the world’s greatest memory”say “I don’t know anything about David Duke” just two days after he condemned the former Klansman in a nationally televised press conference? And with that amazing memory, how could Donald Trump have forgotten that he himself refused to run for president as a Reform Party nominee in 2000 because “Klansman” David Duke was a member of that same party?
These are questions that have no good answers for a Republican Party on the verge of nominating a man who sounds more like a Dixiecrat from the 1950s than the kind of nominee the GOP needs four years after losing Hispanics by 44 percent, Asian-Americans by 47 percent, and black Americans by 87 percent.
Sunday’s distressing performance is just the latest in a string of incidents that suggest to critics that Donald Trump is using bigotry to fuel his controversial campaign. The most explicit of all examples was his December proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Mika Brzezinski, my “Morning Joe” co-host, called that political promise “frightening” and our debate with Trump got so heated that I eventually hung up on the candidate during the interview.

But what Mika and I found offensive ended up attracting even more Republican primary voters to Donald Trump’s campaign. His approval ratings kept rising over the next two months, and in last week’s South Carolina primary, 75% of South Carolina’s GOP voters supported that same Muslim ban.
The day I hung up on Donald Trump, I asked on air, “Is this what Germany looked like in 1933?” Later, I warned Republicans that Trump’s rhetoric could lead to a brokered convention where “the party will kill itself.” But it looks like I overestimated primary voters in the early GOP contests. A brokered convention is now just the fantasy of Republican elites and Marco Rubio fans. The harsher reality is that the next GOP nominee will be a man who refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan and one of its most infamous Grand Wizards when telling the ugly truth wouldn’t have cost him a single vote.
So is this how the party of Abraham Lincoln dies?

Joe Scarborough, a former congressman (R-Fla.), hosts the MSNBC show “Morning Joe."

 

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It's Getting Better EVERYDAY

[h=1]Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama endorses Donald Trump for president[/h]
The first US senator to endorse the billionaire.


Sessions told a crowd of thousands: “At this time in American history, we need to make America great again”.
He then put on a Trump campaign baseball cap and proclaimed: “I am pleased to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States.”
Jefferson Beaureguard Sessions III, who has served four terms in the senate, has long been an advocate for reducing immigration into the US and deporting undocumented migrants.
He told attendees that Tuesday’s primary “may be the last opportunity we have for the people’s voice to be heard”, and continued: “You have asked for 30 years and politicians have promised for 30 years to fix illegal immigration. Have they done it? Donald Trump will do it.”
Sessions also attacked the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement as “Obamatrade” and said “a movement is afoot that must not fade away”.

 

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[The Guesser]

Because Byrd voiced sorrow and regret many times for his disgusting racist past, and became a champion for racial tolerance, http://thegrio.com/2010/06/28/the-evolution-of-robert-byrds-racial-politics/
while Duke is still proudly a racist Scum, and Trump was sending a signal to his ilk thanking them for the support and that he's with them.

 

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- FEBRUARY 28TH, 2016 -

THANK YOU SENATOR SESSIONS!

Dear Patriots I am so incredibly honored to receive the endorsement of highly respected conservative leader Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Senator Jeff Sessions Endorsement​ Senator Sessions is a quality person and we are closely aligned on issues such as trade and immigration. It is wonderful to have his support. Thank you for yours! Tuesday is so important --- get out and vote and together we will Make America Great Again! Best Wishes, Donald J. Trump

 

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