I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party," Trump said on Feb. "Well, you've got David Duke just joined - a big racist, a problem. After Ventura left the party, Trump also named Duke as one of the Reform's "biggest problems" on NBC’s Today Show. I can't be a part of that and I won't be part of that."īefore he called it quits, Ventura said he consulted with Trump. "The latest I hear is that he's now getting support from David Duke. "Buchanan is an anti-abortion extremist and an unrealistic isolationist," Ventura told the New York Daily News on Feb. Jesse Ventura broke with the Reform Party because he didn’t want to be associated with the Reform Party’s presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, whom Duke supported. In 2000, former wrestler and then-Minnesota Gov. But I wouldn’t want him …"įifteen years ago, when Trump was flirting with a White House bid as a Reform Party candidate, he named Duke as a cause of concern at least three times. He said I was absolutely the best of all the candidates. And actually I don’t think it was an endorsement. Somebody told me yesterday, whoever he is, he did endorse me. Trump: "Sure, I would do that if it made you feel better. Heilemann: "Would you repudiate David Duke?" I certainly wouldn’t want his endorsement. Who knows why? But I don’t need his endorsement. Trump: "I don’t know the answer to the first.
So my first question is why do people like that like Donald Trump? And second, how do you feel about the David Duke quasi-endorsement?" John Heilemann: "We’ve heard this week that David Duke - former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan - has come out and said he’s in support of your candidacy.
David Duke endorsed me? Okay, all right, I disavow, okay?"Īnd a few months ago, in August 2015, Trump "repudiated" an earlier expression of support from Duke in a Bloomberg interview: 26 (without identifying Duke as a former Klansman), Trump said, "I didn’t even know he endorsed me. When a reporter asked about Duke’s support on Feb. Trump, as we previously noted and as he acknowledged himself, renounced Duke just two days before he told Tapper he knew nothing about the white nationalist. Later that day, Trump tweeted a video of his earlier disavowal of Duke, and blamed his failure to do it again on CNN on " a very bad earpiece."Īs fellow fact-checkers at the Washington Post and have pointed out, Trump knew enough about Duke to denounce him several times over the past two decades. And I just don't know anything about him." "I don't know any - honestly, I don't know David Duke. And so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about. "I don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on, because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke.
okay? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. "Well, just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke. When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him about Duke, Trump claimed ignorance four times: Two days later, Trump disavowed Duke in a news conference.īut Trump, who claims to have the "world’s greatest memory," seemed to have forgotten this by Feb. 24, when Duke said that he supports Trump’s candidacy and told listeners of his radio program to "get active" for Trump. A few days before Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, the Republican frontrunner was being rebuked left and right for declining to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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