Showing posts with label david duke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label david duke. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Trump and the Klan on Super Tuesday Eve


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The story goes that Donald Trump's father was once jailed for participating in a Ku Klux Klan rally in New York city:

From New York Daily News
Fred Trump Sr. was among seven men arrested following a May 30, 1927 brawl between members of the KKK and the New York Police Department, according to The Washington Post, which unearthed news articles from the June 1, 1927 edition of The New York Times.
. . . The fights that broke out in Queens occurred after 1,000 KKK members dressed in white hooded robes marched through the Jamaica neighborhood. According to The Post, the address of the elder Trump from the arrest report matched the Jamaica address where he lived, according to a 1930 Census.

But The Donald has often denied the story, and his denial continued this week as famous Klansman David Duke endorsed Trump for President of the United States. When asked about it, Trump denied knowing who David Duke is, or the fact he has always been connected to the Klan.

David Duke Biography on Wikipedia

Duke's Endorsement on Facebook

Over 500 major media articles came out today attacking me. Other than the Jewish ultra-Zionist NY Daily News, not one...

Posted by Dr. David Duke on Friday, February 26, 2016





CNN's Jake Tapper gave Trump several chances to distance himself from Duke:

Quotes from Trump via Huffington Post:

Just so you understand. I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don't know. I mean, I don't know -- did he endorse me or what's going on? Because 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.

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Well, I have to look at the group. 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.

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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.

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The problem is that Trump clearly knew about David Duke, as does anyone who was alive and reading the news in the late 1980s when Duke served in the Louisiana House, then ran for several offices including Louisiana Governor and Senator, and even President of the U.S. It was a huge controversy at the time for anyone to be so openly proud of Klan affiliation, and David Duke has not changed over the years.

But Trump had mentioned Duke and KKK many years before:





















But according to Trump, when Tapper asked him the questions he was deaf due to a "bad earpiece" he was wearing during the CNN interview. Yes, being unable to hear Jake Tapper's question is now his excuse for losing three separate opportunities to deny any association with the KKK, and he said he had disavowed the whole thing in a press conference with Chris Christie the day before in Texas:

From NY Daily News:
“I'm sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear what he was saying. But what I heard was various groups, and I don't mind disavowing anybody, and I disavowed David Duke and I disavowed him the day before at a major news conference, which is surprising because he was at the major news conference, CNN was at the major news conference, and they heard me very easily disavow David Duke," Trump said Monday on NBC’s “Today” show.
"Now, I go, and I sit down again, I have a lousy earpiece that is provided by them, and frankly, he talked about groups," Trump said, referring to the question from CNN's Jake Tapper. "He also talked about groups. And I have no problem with disavowing groups, but I'd at least like to know who they are. It would be very unfair to disavow a group, Matt, if the group shouldn't be disavowed. I have to know who the groups are. But I disavowed David Duke."
“Now, if you look on Facebook, right after that, I also disavowed David Duke. When we looked at it, and looked at the question, I disavowed David Duke," he said. "So I disavowed David Duke all weekend long, on Facebook, on Twitter and obviously, it’s never enough. Ridiculous.”





Of course many on the right took up for Trump because why shouldn't they have the right to praise the Klan and be endorsed in return? Right? Amirite? And besides that - blame Obama, blame Hillary - they are racists too!









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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The KKK Past of Steve Scalise

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Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) is the House Majority Whip starting in January, but he is already drawing fire for a speech he made back in 2002 to a group founded by ex-KKK Grand Dragon, David Duke. When first asked about this, Scalise said he "didn't know" of a connection between Duke and the KKK. Yeah right. And he's been scrambling ever since.

The hashtag #SteveScaliseExcuses has trended several times.

From Washington Post
Scalise's people said that he had no idea about the group's ideology. They are essentially blaming poor planning and lack of research for how Scalise ended up speaking before a group of white nationalists. (Erick Erikson asks a good question over at RedState: How do you show up at a David Duke event and not know what it is?) This excuse, while perhaps a valid one, doesn't change the fact that this is a very bad thing for Scalise, who is the third-ranking member of the House, and for the GOP as they attempt rebranding with minority voters.





In retaliation, David Duke issued his own ultimatum to critics of Scalise in Congress:

Via Raw Story
Duke said that he is shocked at the “insane” amount of attention he and Scalise are getting.

“Why is Scalise being singled out? I don’t know,” he said. “He was just going [to the EURO conference], obviously, to tell voters about some of his initiatives on some tax matters. That’s what it’s all about. And I think it’s insane, this whole process.”

He issued a warning to Democrats and Republicans who might try to ruin his friend’s career.
“If Scalise is going to be crucified — if Republicans want to throw Steve Scalise to the woods, then a lot of them better be looking over their shoulders,” Duke warned, intimating that he would reveal his ties to any politicians who attack Scalise.


































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