Despite knowing full well who David Duke is and what the Ku Klux Klan is, Donald Trump feigned ignorance of both in a national television interview two days before an election in southern states. Duke, a former grand wizard of that terrorist and racist organization, had endorsed Trump’s candidacy. CNN’s Jake Tapper was throwing Trump a softball by giving him a chance to disavow the endorsement.
Instead, Trump pretended he’d never heard of Duke or the KKK, about whom he wrote in his 2000 book and even commented on briefly last week, and protested that he could not condemn them without doing some research. (You can watch the video above.) The look of disbelief on Tapper’s face when his guest wouldn’t even take that step toward the bounds of decency is something to behold.
