Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday denounced the support of the Crusader newspaper, one of the official mouthpieces of the Ku Klux Klan.
“Mr. Trump and the campaign denounce hate in any form,” the campaign said in a statement. “This publication is repulsive.”
Trump campaign statement on Trump being endorsed by a KKK newspaper: “This publication is repulsive…” pic.twitter.com/IO6f6Yek4R
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) November 2, 2016
The Crusader’s Pastor Thomas Robb wrote the front-page endorsement of the Republican nominee, praising his nationalist views and ability to prevent so-called “white genocide.”
“While Trump wants to make America great again, we have to ask ourselves, ‘What made America great in the first place?’” Robb writes. “The short answer to that is simple. America was great not because of what our forefathers did—but because of who our forefathers were.”
“America was founded as a White Christian Republic,” he went on. “And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”
Robb told the Post that the piece wasn’t an official endorsement because “there’s things you disagree with” but represented the publication’s enthusiastic backing of his candidacy.
While the Trump campaign insisted that the newspaper’s views “do not represent the tens of millions of Americans” who support the real estate mogul, this is far from the first time his team has had to denounce the support of white supremacist and anti-Semitic fans.
Trump was endorsed by the white nationalist American Freedom Party, has been promoted in robocalls by a white nationalist super PAC, received the endorsement of several former KKK leaders including David Duke, and is the darling of the white nationalist Twitter trolls who compose the alt-right.
Just this weekend, campaign managed Kellyanne Conway called a fan who screamed “Jew-S-A” at reporters “deplorable.”
Trump has received few newspaper endorsements for a major party presidential candidate. With the exception of a handful of small hometown publications and the Crusader, Trump’s other endorsements include the Sheldon Adelson-backed Las Vegas Review Journal and the National Enquirer.
So, then, … deplorable?
Isn’t being “repulsive” considered a feature rather than a defect?
Trump has been endorsed by the National Enquirer?! Reality is satire is reality…
Regarding Trump’s white supremacy endorsement: Oh yes they do “represent tens of millions of Americans uniting behind” his campaign. Oh yes they do.
But Donnie Boy, they are only behaving according to the theory of strong attraction. You know, that whole mindless particle thing.
Man I bet that paper is full of spelling, grammar and wrong word errors!