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Senate in 1990 and governor of Louisiana in 1991. 25 reported Duke’s statement of support.ĭuke ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for U.S. 24 that “voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage.” BuzzFeed on Feb. Trump at the time called Duke “a bigot, a racist, a problem.”įor several days, Trump has had trouble handling questions about Duke, ever since Duke said on his radio show Feb.

In 2000, Trump considered running for the Reform Party presidential nomination but did not run because he said he did not want to be associated with Pat Buchanan, who had left the Republican Party to seek the Reform Party nomination, and David Duke, who supported Buchanan.

“I hate seeing what it represents,” Trump said, referring to what he called the “anger vote.” Duke lost but he won a majority of the white vote - which Trump found troubling. Bush was right “to come out against” Duke’s campaign.

Duke ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991 as a Republican, and Trump said at the time that President George H.W.

"Well, our people defended themselves and some people went too far, obviously," Duke said.Asked if he would publicly reject the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said, “I just don’t know anything about him.” That’s nonsense:

They hate you."ĭuke also went on an anti-Semitic tirade about the media and called what happened in Charlottesville a "criminal conspiracy" in which white supremacists were "set up" to be attacked by the counter protesters. "President Trump please, for God's sake, don't feel like you've got to say these things. "You had to come out and say I condemn all these people," Duke said. If you do you're going to be crucified," Duke said as he explained that he understood why Trump felt he needed to condemn white supremacists. "To get elected today you can't really speak straightforwardly and totally honestly. "I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists," Duke tweeted.ĭuke also posted a more than 45-minute rambling video response Monday to Trump's condemnation of racist groups. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back."īut Monday, Duke expressed strong disappointment after Trump's speech denouncing white supremacist groups. "We are going to fulfill the promise of Donald Trump. "We are determined to take our country back," Duke said Saturday. At that rally, Duke explicitly tied the white supremacist movement to Trump. Spencer and Duke were present at the protest in Charlottesville. Spencer said Trump "cares about the truth" and said Trump's "statement was fair and down to earth."

"Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa," Duke tweeted after the news conference.

There was a storm of negative reaction to President Trump's news conference Tuesday in which he said both the white supremacists and counter-protesters were responsible for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday.Īmong two voices that spoke out loudly in defense of the president's remarks: Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and white supremacist figurehead Richard Spencer. Watch Video: Trump waited to 'know the facts' about Charlottesville