Trump declines to condemn former KKK leader who backed him
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Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump on Sunday declined to condemn David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who this week urged sympathisers to vote for the billionaire in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
“I don’t know anything about David Duke,” Trump said, in an interview on CNN, adding: “Certainly I would disavow it if I thought there was something wrong.”
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“I don’t know anything about David Duke. I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists,” Trump said.
“So I don’t know. 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.”
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/28/donald-trump-former-kkk-leader-david-duke
Ignorance, whether true or feigning, on this issue or any issue of importance
is simply not acceptable for any Presidential candidate. It is a true disqualifier
that should ring alarm bells in any voter's mind.
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I wonder how Donald would fare debating with a Jewish man who is the son of a holocaust survivor that did not speak English? Would Donald know what The Holocaust was or is that beyond his level of comprehension too? If he does not know, he has no business running for president and furthermore, he needs to go back to school and learn all about it!
As for David Duke, famed Klansman that he is, how could anyone NOT know and yes, Donald can google as well as the can tweet I am quite sure. Just shows what a liar he is!
Watch it and weep Donald if you have such an ability within yourself:
He sickens me so and it saddens me greatly to think that Donald, racist that he is, claims to not know who David Duke and the KKK are!
& recommend!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html
Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”
“Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ”
The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump’s full name, concludes: “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”
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No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there,” said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site.
“The only thing that was remotely close to that,” Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed. “The River of Blood?” he added. “Nope, not there.”
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@ one time this alone would have been enough to end somebody's run for president.
He is a threat to every single person on this planet!
A dynamic duo indeed. How 'effin scary is this exactly? VERY ... 
