Hiku said:
1.) Right, but he seemingly does a lot of this on purpose. When it was clarified for him that a KKK leader endorsed him, and they asked if he condemns the endorsement of the KKK and the former KKK leader, this was his response.
Trump: I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. ... If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow them if I thought there was something wrong.
Tapper: The Ku Klux Klan?
Trump: You may have groups in there that are totally fine and it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know.
Tapper: I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here.
Trump: Honestly, I don't know David Duke.
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Later on, he took to Twitter to say "I disavow."
However, Trump should be quite familiar with David Duke and the KKK, as he cited them specifically as a reason for not wanting their parties nomination when he ran for President in 2000.
| "The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Pat][ Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora] Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep," he wrote in his statement. |
In another incident where Trump supporters beat up a homeless immigrant, Trump said absolutely nothing about how it was an aweful act or how he condemns it. He merely called his supportrs "passionate".
Later on he took to twitter to condemn their actions.
I see a pattern here.
He doesn't condemn them at first on national TV, but does it on twitter later on the downlow. Because it's expected of him. He wants the votes of the white supremacists, the violent, the biggots, the fearful and the ignorant, etc.
Not saying that everyone who votes for him belong to these groups, but he knows they carry a lot of voting power, and he's not above taking full advantage of it.
2.) Saddam killed everyone. Naturally he'll get terrorists as well. The point isn't if the statement is true or not, but who he choses to praise, and the reason for it. It's the same reason he retweets KKK. For votes.
3.) So he said that it's ok to commit war crimes only some times? Well that changes nothing.
4.) I don't know about his backpedling, but he has said that he would deport all undocumented immigrants. Besides the fact that his plan is unconstitutional, and would require him to arrest an estimated 15 000 people a day over the course of 2 years, you have to keep in mind that ideas this radical can be very dangerous. Even Hitler did not say that he would kill the jews in his campaign speeches.
The ACLU made a list of all of Trump's unconsitutional propositions. (It's 28 pages long) https://action.aclu.org/sites/default/files/pages/trumpmemos.pdf
5.) It is. But whichever side may be dumber, I think the quote applies to Trump's tactics in this election.
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1. Trump knows how the media works and what sort of answers they want from him. Do you seriously think he chose not to disavow David Duke and the KKK in order to secure more votes? That's ludicrous. If anything the fact that Tapper didn't have more than that one group caught him off guard, hence his clumsy answer.
2. And now you're claiming that Trump praised Saddam to get votes? How popular do you suppose Saddam is among the American population?
All Trump did was stating a fact: Saddam was good at killing terrorists and now that he's gone, the middle east is destabilized while the terrorists in Iraq are having a field day.
3. Tell that to terror victims. If you want to grab terrorist movements by the roots, you sometimes have to make difficult decisions. Of course, those decisions rarely concern killing innocent children and mothers completely unaware of their husbands' ISIS ties, but the media will gladly imply otherwise.
4. So now you're comparing deporting illegal immigrants to systematically killing all Jews? And last time I checked there was nothing unconstitutional about upholding the law. I've noticed that you insist on calling them "undocumented," but by law they are all criminals, plain and simple.
I won't read through 28 pages just to see how the ACLU have managed to twist the facts to make deportation of illegal immigrants unconstitutional. Feel free to provide a shorter version.
5. I'm sure it does apply, but spreading false information just to smear a candidate is not something that I approve of. The Trump camp also has its fair share of false Hillary information that I'd prefer they stopped spreading.
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