Trump On David Duke Support: ‘How Many Times Do I Have To Disavow?’

How about the minute you heard he was supporting ou rather than saying you didn’t know him and then you couldn’t hear the questions because of your ear piece. That’s when

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Tuesday he didn’t hesitate to disavow an endorsement from a former Ku Klux Klan leader but he needed to check out what “group” he was associated with before responding.

“Now, right after the program we’re talking about, and I thought it was clear, but we’re talking about groups, groups, groups, I do have to know the name of the group because who knows. They have to give me the name of the group,” Trump, flanked by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, said in a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida.

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.**
Tapper pushed back. Trump suggested Tapper send him a list of “the groups” and he could research them. At which point, Trump said he would “disavow if I thought there was something wrong.”

"The Ku Klux Klan?" Tapper asked.

“It would be very unfair,” Trump continued talking over Tapper. “So give me a list of the groups and I’ll let you know.”

"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.”

Duke ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991 as a Republican, and Trump said at the time that President George H.W. Bush was right “to come out against” Duke’s campaign. Duke lost but he won a majority of the white vote — which Trump found troubling. “I hate seeing what it represents,” Trump said, referring to what he called the “anger vote.”

In 2000, Trump considered running for the Reform Party presidential nomination but did not run because he said he did not want to be associated with Pat Buchanan, who had left the Republican Party to seek the Reform Party nomination, and David Duke, who supported Buchanan. Trump at the time called Duke “a bigot, a racist, a problem.”

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Donnie, you just have to be consistent when disavowing the KKK. You can’t just do it when it’s convenient :’(