Trump Says He ‘Would Disavow’ White Nationalist Robocalls Supporting Him

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses supporters at a rally, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Donald Trump on Wednesday evening said that he was not shocked by robocalls supporting him from a white nationalist super PAC, but he said he “would disavow” the calls.

During a phone interview on CNN’s “Outfront,” Trump was asked to comment on the calls.

“Nothing in this country shocks me. I would disavow it, but nothing in this country shocks me,” he responded.

“People are angry, they’re angry at what’s going on,” he continued. “They’re angry at the border, they’re angry at the crime, they’re angry at people coming in and shooting Kate [Steinle] in the back in California, in San Francisco, they’re angry when Jamiel Shaw was shot in the face by an illegal immigrant, they’re angry when the woman, the veteran, 65 years old, is raped, sodomized, and killed by an illegal immigrant. And they’re very angry about it and, by the way, thousands of other cases like that.”

TPM reported over the weekend that Iowa voters on Saturday received robocalls from the American National Super PAC telling them to vote for Trump.

“I urge you to vote for Donald Trump because he is the one candidate who points out that we should accept immigrants who are good for America,” Jared Taylor, the founder of a white supremacist magazine, said on the call. “We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people who will assimilate to our culture. Vote Trump.”

Watch Trump’s response:

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  1. Did it take him this long to figure out he’s better say something about this or did it just take the media this long to ask him about it?

    I, too, know a lot of angry people, Mr. Trump. They are angry that a buffoon like you has even a remote chance of becoming the president of this country.

  2. Analogy: I’m running a chain of burger joints and I advertize half-price specials in selected areas. I never select certain areas. I pick the areas I like - where the people just like me live. People not like me complain, I say I feel for them and I understand their frustration. And then I move on.

  3. Yeah Donald…after the elevation of YOU, a reality TV star, to the highest poll numbers of a candidate running for President, nothing much shocks me either.

  4. Pretty tepid disavowal there, sport, kinda low energy, actually, to the point of not being a disavowal at all strictly speaking. But I know how it is, I really do. When your soul is that empty and hungry and desperate, any kind of love—love from a white supremacist who’s an apologist for Dylann Roof, say—well, it’s still love, isn’t it? You can’t reject it, not when every cheering voice helps you cling to the tattered hope that you’re not a buffoon after all, you’re not a clown, you’re not a joke.

  5. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Yet he didnt call them disgusting, or some other pejorative, or denounce their views as long as they support him, he’ll gladly take their votes

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