[Off-Topic-Trump 2] Donald Trump Declines to Disavow David Duke
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/donald-trump-declines-to-disavow-david-duke/
The discussion of Mr. Trump's support among white
supremacists comes on a day when he also re-posted a tweet
quoting Benito Mussolini, the founder of the fascist movement,
and called for the libel laws to be weakened so that he could
more easily sue the press when it covers him critically.
Mr. Trump's lack of knowledge of Mr. Duke was surprising
because he said as recently as Friday that he did disavow Mr.
Duke's support.
The Manhattan businessman also expressed his disapproval
of Mr. Duke back in 2000 after deciding not to embark on a
presidential bid in the Reform Party.
"The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a
neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani," Mr. Trump
said in a statement, referring to Pat Buchanan and Lenora
Fulani, the former standard-bearer of the New Alliance Party and
an advocate of Marxist-Leninist politics. "This is not company
I wish to keep."
But on Sunday, Mr. Trump insisted that he would not condemn
someone who he does not know anything about.
"I don't know David Duke," he said. "I don't believe I
have ever met him. I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just
don't know anything about him."
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