{"id":4066,"date":"2016-02-29T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-29T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:30:19","slug":"trump_declines_to_disavow_david_duke_and_the_kkk_but_only_on_sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/29\/trump_declines_to_disavow_david_duke_and_the_kkk_but_only_on_sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Declines to Disavow David Duke and the KKK — But Only on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Everybody is stunned over Trump. Nobody understands how Trump is still breathing. Nobody understands how Trump\u2019s still pulling this off. You wouldn\u2019t believe the theories that I\u2019ve received from people sending me notes telling me what they think is really going on. And I guess the latest brouhaha with Trump is, he was on CNN with Jake Tapper yesterday, and he tried to act like he didn\u2019t know who David Duke was, and he would not denounce David Duke nor would he denounce the Ku Klux Klan. Yet he had done so on previous occasions. He used to be in the Reform Party. <\/p>\n

Now, the Reform Party was the offshoot of Ross Perot\u2019s 1992 presidential effort, although Perot wasn\u2019t part of it. Buchanan became the titular head, and Trump\u2019s out there insulting Buchanan. He said he left the Reform Party because Buchanan\u2019s a neo-Nazi had David Duke and the KKK in it. He said that\u2019s not the company he wanted to keep. So he was on record as having denounced Duke and having denounced the Klan and wanting nothing to do with \u2019em. <\/p>\n

And so the Jacob Tapper CNN Sunday show comes and Trump hems and haws and, what\u2019s going on? I just have to tell you, anybody else, that would have done \u2019em in, no matter what they had said before. No matter how many times they had denounced Duke or the Klan, if you go on CNN Sunday, can you imagine, forget that it\u2019s Trump and make it Romney. Romney\u2019s on Jake Tapper\u2019s show yesterday and he says, “I understand that David Duke\u2019s endorsed you, Governor Romney, and he\u2019s a Klan member and so forth”, and imagine Romney hemming and hawing and saying, “Well, I really don\u2019t know who that is.” Romney\u2019d be gone. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, that would be it. On top of all the other stuff they had about Romney, you know, not caring when the wife of a male employee of his passed away or didn\u2019t care enough about the dog, put it on the roof of the station wagon, family vacation or whatever. But Trump survives it, and then they go to the previous episodes where he has denounced Duke and the KKK and they\u2019re scratching their heads, “Why wouldn\u2019t he do it on Jake Tapper\u2019s show?” <\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s busting their head trying to figure out why wouldn\u2019t he denounce. Oh, no, no. Had a bad earpiece, wasn\u2019t sure what he was being asked, because when the Jake Tapper — this is key — when the Jake Tapper show ended, then Trump went out there started denouncing. He denounced on Twitter. He denounced everywhere else. By the way, you know Trump doesn\u2019t use e-mail. He has never used e-mail. And people are curious, why don\u2019t you use e-mail? You tweet all the time. You post on Facebook, Instagram. Why not e-mail? <\/p>\n

And Trump said it\u2019s a different ball of wax. He said half the people I know have been indicted \u2019cause of what they wrote in e-mails. They put down stuff in these e-mails, they sent it back and forth, law enforcement gets hold of it, and that\u2019s it, that\u2019s his answer for not e-mailing. It\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t like it technologically, it\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t know how. He just says that he\u2019s had friends that have been indicted for what they\u2019ve trafficked in content-wise in e-mails. <\/p>\n

But there has to be a reason that Trump, on the actual show with Jake Tapper, hems and haws and acts like he doesn\u2019t know who Duke is and the Klan and (imitating Trump) Well, I need to investigate. I never heard of the group. You need to send me a list.” And Jake says okay, I\u2019ll send you the list, but I\u2019m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. “Well, you know, there\u2019s a lot of different people in these groups, and I gotta research it.” <\/p>\n