Joe Scarborough: Donald Trump Playing Dumb About the
KKK Is 'Disqualifying'
“I
mean is he really so stupid that he thinks Southerners aren’t offended by the
Ku Klux Klan and David Duke?"
The Huffington Post
02/29/2016 Paige Lavender Senior Politics Editor, The
Huffington Post
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's
"Morning Joe," suggested business mogul Donald Trump's refusal to
disavow the Ku Klux Klan could disqualify him from the
presidential race.
"It’s breathtaking. That is
disqualifying right there," Scarborough said Monday. "To say you
don’t know about the Ku Klux Klan? You don’t know about David Duke?"
“Is he really so stupid that he
thinks Southerners aren’t offended by the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke?"
Scarborough continued. "Is he really so ignorant of Southern voters that
he thinks this is the way to their heart? To go neutral, to play Switzerland
when you're talking about the Klan?"
ASSOCIATED
PRESS Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been slammed for
failing to disavow the Ku Klux Klan's endorsement.
Over the weekend, Trump failed three times to refuse the
endorsement of both the KKK and David Duke, a former leader of the white
supremacist group.
"Honestly, I don’t know David
Duke. I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him. And
I just don’t know anything about him," Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper.
But Trump later blamed his
hesitancy to condemn Duke on a "bad earpiece," claiming he had
previously disavowed Duke.
"I was sitting in a house in
Florida, with a bad earpiece," Trump told NBC's "Today" on
Monday. "I could hardly hear what he's saying. I hear various groups. I
don't mind disavowing anyone. I disavowed Duke the day before at a major
conference."
Scarborough is one of many slamming
Trump for the move. At a campaign rally Monday morning, Trump's GOP primary
rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Trump is "unelectable now." Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas), also a GOP presidential hopeful, called the KKK "abhorrent" in a tweet
Sunday.
Editor's note: Donald Trump is
a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who
has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire
religion -- from entering the U.S.
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Yesterday, a friend brought me a pile of magazines. There was an issue of "Gather Journal", which is an art and food magazine. It's always a treat. And then there were various mags about home and decorating. And then there was this scary-looking one called "The Intelligence Report", published by the The Southern Poverty Law Center.
That one was really scary. I thumbed through it with growing revulsion and distress.
OK. I know there's a bunch of scary people out there. But here they were all neatly graphed and mapped. It was enough to give you nightmares. These are Donald Trump's people.
Here's a couple of maps from the issue - Spring 2014 - that I looked at. Creepy, creepy, creepy.
Click maps to enlarge
That one was really scary. I thumbed through it with growing revulsion and distress.
OK. I know there's a bunch of scary people out there. But here they were all neatly graphed and mapped. It was enough to give you nightmares. These are Donald Trump's people.
Here's a couple of maps from the issue - Spring 2014 - that I looked at. Creepy, creepy, creepy.
Click maps to enlarge