![]() I disavow and condemn."Īt the conference, Spencer saluted supporters with, " Hail Trump." of people who pledged allegiance to Nazism. In November 2016, a New York Times journalist asked Trump about a recent conference in Washington D.C. But Trump has criticized events where Spencer, the head of a white-identity think tank, played a key role. We didn’t find any instance when Trump was asked to denounce Spencer by name. What Trump said about events led by Spencer Trump also called Duke "a bigot, a racist, a problem." In 2000, Trump declined to run a Reform Party presidential bid in part because the party attracted Duke’s support. There's a tremendous amount of hostility in the United States." Trump replied: "I hate seeing what it represents, but I guess it just shows there's a lot of hostility in this country. In 1991, CNN’s Larry King asked Trump what Duke’s success with white voters in a failed bid for the Louisiana governorship represented. We found Trump denounced Duke years before his interview with Tapper. The campaign also referred us to instances when Trump denied knowing anything about Duke or gave testy disavowals. The Biden campaign pointed to that interview when we asked them for evidence to support Biden’s claim. ![]() In the days that followed, Trump rejected Duke’s support in interviews on Good Morning America and Morning Joe, calling him a "bad person who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years." Trump later blamed a bad ear piece, saying he could barely hear the questions. ![]() And, certainly, I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong." If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I mean, I don't know what group you're talking about. Trump replied: "Well, I have to look at the group. Tapper asked Trump if he would condemn Duke and say that he didn’t want the vote of white supremacists. Since then, Duke has been a noted white supremacist. Duke founded a Louisiana chapter of the KKK in 1974, but left in 1980 because of its tendency towards violence. The ad distorted Trump’s record by cherry picking one interview in which CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Trump about Duke in February 2016. ![]() ![]() In 2016, we fact-checked a claim that "Trump refuses to denounce the KKK." We rated the statement Mostly False. But then Trump also said that there were "very fine people, on both sides" at the Charlottesville, Va., march. Trump has also criticized demonstrations in which Spencer participated. Trump’s condemnation of Duke goes back decades, though sometimes Trump has been more forceful than other times. He said, ‘This is the white nationalism we have been looking for.’ Did you hear him condemn either one of those people? Ever utter a word of condemnation?"īiden didn’t answer his own question, but he was clearly stating Trump hasn’t condemned either racist leader.īiden accurately quoted Duke’s comments about Trump, and Spencer did hail Trump.īut Biden exaggerates when he says Trump hasn’t condemned Duke at all. The white nationalist, Richard Spencer, he hailed Trump. When that group came out of the woods, the fields, carrying those torches he said, ‘ That’s why we voted for Donald Trump.’ He said he would take the country back. "David Duke, head of the Ku Klux Klan, former head of the Klan. Joe Biden said that President Donald Trump has failed to condemn racist leaders like David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and white nationalist Richard Spencer. ![]()
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