{"id":27895,"date":"2016-02-28T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=27895"},"modified":"2017-08-12T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T06:59:00","slug":"trump-denies-knowing-who-david-duke-is-but-in-2000-david-duke-is-a-bigot-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/trump-denies-knowing-who-david-duke-is-but-in-2000-david-duke-is-a-bigot-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Denies Knowing Who David Duke is But in 2000: Duke is &#8220;a Bigot, a Racist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Donald Trump appeared on CNN denying he didn&#8217;t know who the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke is, <i>&#8220;Well just so you understand, I don\u2019t know anything about David Duke, okay? I don&#8217;t know anything about what you&#8217;re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don&#8217;t know&#8221; &#8230; &#8221; I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists&#8230;&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7RiTyAwlzRI?rel=0\" width=\"460\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2000 Trump did an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show about a run for the White House on the Reform Party ticket stating David Duke <i>&#8220;is a bigot&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OyJWUwG7oJ0?rel=0\" width=\"460\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>So Donald doesn&#8217;t know anything about David Duke today but in 2000 he knew Duke was, at the least,<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;a bigot, a racist, a problem.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archives.nbclearn.com\/portal\/site\/k-12\/flatview?cuecard=2526\">Today Show transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Donald Trump appeared on CNN denying he didn&#8217;t know who the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke is, &#8220;Well just so you understand, I don\u2019t know anything about David Duke,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,2971,8655],"tags":[1646,843,3851,42686,8944],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32340,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895\/revisions\/32340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}