Donald Trump asserted that he will renounce the support of any white supremacists from now on — and that he has done more for equality than anyone else.
“David Duke and all were disavowed. I disavowed them on Friday,” Trump said in a phone interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday morning, just days after he caught criticism for refusing to disavow support of the KKK and its former grand wizard, David Duke, on Sunday.
The Republican presidential front-runner also said Tuesday that he has disavowed them on social media.
“Almost immediately after on Twitter and Facebook they were disavowed again,” he told host George Stephanopoulos. “I disavowed them every time I speak to somebody, virtually, and, you know, they just keep it going. They keep it going. They said: ‘Oh, we never looked at your Twitter account. We never looked at Facebook.’ I said take a look at Facebook. It was totally disavowed.”
Stephanopoulos then asked Trump if he was “prepared to make a clear and unequivocal statement renouncing support of all white supremacists.”
“Of course I am. There’s nobody that’s done so much for equality as I have,” the billionaire businessman responded, then citing his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., as an example.
The club is “totally open to everybody,” Trump said, and is “a club that, frankly, set a new standard — a new standard in clubs and a new standard in Palm Beach. And I’ve got great credit for it. That is totally open to everybody, so of course I am.”
