Donald Trump On David Duke Endorsement: ‘I Disavow, OK?
Source: CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has changed his tune after refusing to disavow an endorsement from David Duke on Sunday, saying he doesn’t know anything about the former Ku Klux Klan leader.
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Trump was asked whether he would declare that he didn’t want Duke’s support, or that of other white supremacists in the presidential election.
Trump replied he didn’t “know anything about David Duke.”
“I have to look at the group. I mean, I don’t know what group you’re talking about,” Trump said on CNN. “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I have to look.”
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"Trump hasn’t always claimed ignorance on Duke’s history. In 2000, he wrote a New York Times op-ed explaining why he abandoned the possibility of running for president on the Reform Party ticket. He wrote of an “underside” and “fringe element” of the party, concluding, “I leave the Reform Party to David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani. That is not company I wish to keep.”
He WANTS those votes from the racist hate-mongers, of course he does.
He was hoping just not to get called out on that endorsement, that's all.
JFC...a poll taken with his "followers" showed 20% said the slaves should not have been freed. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html
Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”
“Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ”
The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump’s full name, concludes: “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”
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No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there,” said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site.
“The only thing that was remotely close to that,” Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed. “The River of Blood?” he added. “Nope, not there.”
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@ one time this alone would have been enough to end somebody's run for president.
