Trump’s campaign disavows support of newspaper aligned with KKK
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign stop at UW-Eau Claire’s Zorn Arena in Eau Claire, Wis.
Donald Trump’s campaign Tuesday night said that he “denounces hate in any form” and disavowed support for his candidacy offered by a newspaper associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
The campaign’s statement came hours after the Crusader devoted its front page to Trump’s well-known campaign slogan.
” ‘Make America Great Again!’ It is a slogan that has been repeatedly used by Donald Trump in his campaign for the presidency,” wrote Thomas Robb, the paper’s editor. “You can see it on the shirts, buttons, posters and ball caps. … But can it happen? Can America really be great again? This is what we will soon find out!”
In an interview with The Washington Post, Robb said that his paper was not officially endorsing Trump.
“Overall, we do like his nationalist views and his words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens. It’s not an endorsement because, like anybody, there’s things you disagree with,” Robb told the Post. “But he kind of reflects what’s happening throughout the world. There seems to be a surge of nationalism worldwide as nationals reclaim their borders.”
Trump’s campaign sought to distance the newspaper’s views from the nominee and his supporters.
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“This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign,” Trump’s campaign said in a statement.
The back-and-forth marked his campaign’s latest brush with individuals or groups tied to racist remarks and beliefs.
Trump’s yearlong campaign has been marked by divisive and racially coded rhetoric. He has received support from white supremacist groups and former KKK leaders, including David Duke, who is running for Senate in Louisiana.
On Monday, a white nationalist leader who has funded several ads supporting Trump unveiled a new robocall in Utah targeting write-in candidate Evan McMullin. Trump’s campaign denounced the ads.
Over the weekend, at rally in Phoenix, a Trump supporter was captured on video shouting “Jew-S-A” at reporters.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manger, denounced the rhetoric as “disgusting.”
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More desperation from the childish progressive media. If ever there was a non story this is it. It’s the equivalent of the fallacious question “have you stopped beating your wife?” Un-diginified at best, desperate and dishonest at worst. The polyester clad congenital liar and her white trash husband have finally been exposed and it’s way uglier than anyone thought. There’s still time to jump ship if you’re a Waldo supporter. Nobody will judge you if you do.
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Chump is just disavowing the public racists. Most of the racists in this country don’t have the courage to voice their views publicly-they form Chump’s base.
Once again. The Democrat history is the party of slavery. The last KKK member Sen. Robert Byrd was a great friend of Hillary. From internment camps to shoveling money to poor inner city folks to buy votes then leave them to murder each other until four years later when they come back to again rally their votes, history does not correspond to the propaganda that these politicians shovel day after day. That fact that Saul Alinsky was the subject of Hillary’s senior thesis should concern everyone that was not a delusional child of the sixties
Who passed the Civil Rights Act? Voting Rights Act?
How about the republican platform consisting of the language “Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values”. Please explain why a portion of society should be denied rights afforded to the other and there by be treated as second class citizens in the eyes of of the law?
Sure. . . the repubs are the “party of Lincoln” right? The only relevance of those facts to contemporary politics is the irony of what the repubs have become- the party of prejudice- against non-whites, immigrants, gays, poor- take your pick. Time to start packing up that sad, shrinking little tent.
this denouncement is phony. over half of trumpy’s supporters are white supremacists, why don’t they disavow them too. hypocrites.
Mr. Trump’s father was a white supremacist and overt racist, whose business model was to rent to only white people. Like father, like son.
David Duke correctly pronounced that “Trump voters are Duke voters.” Mr. Trump has given a voice to the white supremacist, racist, imbecile voting block and has empowered them.
Trump supporters should all be ashamed of themselves.