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13. Media people need to pin him hard on this issue.
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:19 PM
Feb 2016

If these media people don't want to end up working in the propaganda department of a Nazi administration, they need to confront this bastard directly about what sort of people his supporters are.

In particular, the next time Trump says "I don't know who David Duke is," the interviewer needs to explain that Duke is a white supremicist, racist dick-head and then ask again whether Donald wants to condemn Duke or not.

For starters, here are two paragraphs from Wikipedia's entry on David Duke:

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white nationalist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.[5][6] A former one-term Republican Louisiana State Representative, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988 and the Republican presidential primaries in 1992. Duke unsuccessfully ran for the Louisiana State Senate, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana. Duke is a felon, having pleaded guilty to defrauding supporters by falsely claiming to have no money and being in danger of losing his home in order to solicit emergency donations; at the time, Duke was financially secure, and used the donations for recreational gambling.[7]

Duke describes himself as a "racial realist," asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage."[8] Duke also speaks against what he describes as Jewish control of the Federal Reserve Bank, the U.S. federal government and the media. Duke supports the preservation of what he considers to be Western culture and traditionalist Christian family values, Constitutionalism, abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, voluntary racial segregation, anti-Communism and white separatism.[9][10][11] He has been accused of supporting Holocaust denial.

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