Maddow: Trump’s rise a ‘gateway’ for the KKK

Published July 22, 2016 12:18pm ET



MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow worried early Friday morning that Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention could serve as a “gateway drug” for turning the Republican Party into one that puts white supremacists into the mainstream.

Her comments were made in reference to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s reported praise for Trump’s speech Thursday evening.

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