Trump’s Professed Ignorance Of The Alt-Right Fits His Know-Nothing Pattern

Remember that he did not know what David Duke stood for either!


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Trump’s Professed Ignorance Of The Alt-Right Fits His Know-Nothing Pattern
Trump is either ignorant or lying. Neither is a good look.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-alt-right-ignorance-7d4b39835e4d#.ofk4jebpq


In a campaign speech on Thursday, Hillary Clinton denounced Donald Trump for his ties to the “alt-right,” a fringe right-wing movement built around white supremacy, white nationalism, sexism and antisemitism, rebranded for an online generation.

Clinton, in her speech, calmly walked through the extensive list of Trump’s ties and overtures to the movement. “This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name ‘white-genocide-TM,’” she said, referencing a blatantly white supremacist Twitter account Trump has retweeted during the campaign. “Trump took this fringe bigot with a few dozen followers and spread his message to 11 million people.”

It was 37 minutes of example after example of how Trump has clearly courted and emboldened the movement; in all, a devastating attack. Since then, leaders of the Republican party have been conspicuously silent. The alt-right, meanwhile, is rejoicing over the media coverage; American Renaissance, another flagship group of the movement, responded in a press release that only emphasized the alt-right’s white-nationalist premise.

Trump, however, trotted out his usual defense — ignorance.

On CNN, Anderson Cooper asked Trump point-blank if he was embracing the alt-right.

“I don’t even know — nobody even knows what it is,” Trump said, looking straight into the camera.

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