“I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying,” Mr. Trump said it was the earpiece he was using in a television interview with CNN, through a remote connection, as the reason he declined to disavow any support from the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Join us for live updates and analysis of Super Tuesday.ĭonald J. Credit Cooper Neill for The New York Times Trump campaigned in Fort Worth last week ahead of the “Super Tuesday” voting contests. "Because I represent the ideas of preserving this country and the heritage of this country, and I think Trump represents that as well."
Steve asked, "You think Trump voters are your voters?" "We've already polled inside the Trump voters, and we know that we're going to carry 75 to 80 percent of those who are going to vote for Trump," he said. He was confident that Trump backers in Louisiana would support his Senate run. "I've always said that I'm for equal rights for all people, but I also believe that European-Americans shouldn't be facing discrimination either." "I don't know if he's with me or not but I would hope that he and others would realize that the same lies they make about him is what they say about me," he said. "Donald Trump has to run his own campaign I have to run my own campaign," he said. When asked whether he thinks Trump supports him, Duke said he doesn't know what Trump thinks of him. "On Twitter, Trump posted an image of Hillary Clinton, piles of cash, and an apparent Star of David.
"Some critics see echoes of discredited tales like these in some gestures by Donald Trump," Inskeep said. He said Europeans built America, though his own state was built in large part by the descendants of Africans. Inskeep said the candidate "went on for a while, unspooling old racist theories that he said were not racist. And they have a particular orientation for their positions and their programs." That's not European, is it? That's Middle Eastern. Inskeep broke in to ask whether Duke was referring to Jews.ĭuke responded with, "Well they're from the Middle East, that's not European. Hollywood, he said, is not controlled by European-Americans. In his interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Duke claimed there is "massive racist, racial discrimination against European-Americans" and a "very vicious anti-white narrative" in the media. And the truth is in this country if you simply defend the heritage of European American people then you're automatically a racist."ĭavid Duke: 'I represent the ideas of preserving this country' by NPR "I think that those Republicans, or those so-called conservatives, they are betraying the principles of the Republican Party and certainly conservatism," Duke said. In an interview with Morning Edition, Duke criticized the Republicans who have recently declared that they don't support Trump. The former KKK grand wizard, who describes himself as advocating for European-Americans, filed to run for an open Senate seat in Louisiana just one day after the Republican National Convention. But that hasn't stopped some white supremacists from publicly supporting Trump's campaign.ĭuke says that Trump's attacks on Muslims and illegal immigration have brought his own beliefs into the mainstream. Trump, while he once said he didn't know enough about Duke to comment on him, has several times disavowed endorsements by Duke.
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