on July 22, 2016, 9:01 pm, in reply to "White Supremacist David Duke Gives Trump’s Speech Rave Review ..."
Lest We Forget, Donald Trump's Father Was Reportedly Arrested Near a KKK Rally
Donald Trump, a man who denied knowledge of America’s most famous hate group and a leader he has publicly, voluntarily denounced in the past, definitely knows about the Ku Klux Klan. At least, he knows about the white supremacist group when he has to deny allegations that his father was involved in it.
After the Republican presidential frontrunner professed his willful ignorance of the KKK and former leader and current Trump supporter David Duke on Sunday, an interview was unearthed that shows that Trump has passionately spoke about the KKK in the past. Jason Horowitz, a reporter at The New York Times, asked Trump about a 1927 article in that same newspaper which said that his father, Fred C. Trump, was arrested along with a group reportedly at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens. It wasn’t clear what sort of role the senior Trump played in the rally, but according to the younger Trump, it never happened at all. From The New York Times report:
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