The GOP frontrunner and presumptive nominee for the GOP nomination, Donald Trump, once again was caught quote-tweeting a white supremacist. This isn't a one-off instance.
And quoting a guy who follows the US Fascist party. This is part of Trump's twitter strategy @howiewolf pic.twitter.com/wUVTGeZNi0
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 28, 2016
He keeps doing it.
Every few days he finds some white supremacist or fascist account to quote-tweet.
62% of the People Donald Trump RTed This Week Follow Multiple White Supremacist Accounts https://t.co/crOGRAhMci pic.twitter.com/QrIEVkxzoF
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 28, 2016
The source for @realDonaldTrump's tweet? An actual neo-Nazi. That's whose dangerous racist lies he wants to amplify: https://t.co/ubTBwIUOiI
— Anil Dash (@anildash) November 23, 2015
For any other candidate in any other year, this would have terminated their campaign. This isn't like any other election year, and Donald Trump isn't like any other candidate.
Those tweets are actually garnering little in the way of opposition from within the GOP. And now, he's garnered support of noted racist/white supremacist and former Grand Dragon of the KKK David Duke and yet he keeps playing games.
Donald Trump wouldn't disavow David Duke's support for his presidential bid, saying Sunday that he knows nothing about the white supremacist leader.
"Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?" Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," he said. "So I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."
You simply cannot make this stuff up.
Trump claims to have a perfect memory, and can't recall that he went after Duke in 2000.
Donald Trump knew David Duke was a klansman in 2000, yet denies knowledge of him now. https://t.co/P3eMUj3lWP pic.twitter.com/kJQUKqMxim
— Justin Green (@JGreenDC) February 28, 2016
Now, Trump refuses to disavow Duke.
It's all part of a pattern that has long been undeniable for months. Trump is actively soliciting, and pandering to, white supremacists and racists that form a significant portion of the GOP base. It's part of the reason that the GOP isn't pushing back against the racist and white supremacist and fascist statements Trump has made over the past few months. They're increasingly worried that they'll lose critical votes.
All of Trump's statements and actions, and the counter-actions by the GOP are symptomatic of the rot in the GOP itself. They've spent years cultivating anger, fear, and hatred among the GOP base. Now, they've found the guy that epitomizes all that in Trump.
6 comments:
I thought I saw Trump say he disavowed Duke. Can't stop someone from endorsing you. The question is whether it was a solicited endorsement. The Moonlight Bunny Ranch endorsed Hillary, doesn't mean she is pro-prostitution.
The problem is that he hasn't disavowed and then played games on whether he knew Duke or the KKK (he didn't hear the Q despite repeating the names of both). He can repudiate the group. He continues pandering day in and day out to white supremacists and racists. Scum of the earth are his stock and trade.
He can't straight up repudiate the white supremacists and hate groups that are following him because that'd be a significant part of his base.
Why else quote-tweet racists and white supremacists (who signal that very thing in their twitter name/avi or description).
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