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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 80 - Why Trump Didn't Denounce The KKK

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Trump is oddly reticent to denounce white supremacists, Ben discusses his trip to Cal State LA, and we talk Oscars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here we are, it's a Monday, and yes, I'm alive, made it out alive from Cal State, Los Angeles. We will talk about that. Plus, Donald Trump completely implodes over the Ku Klux Klan, but who really cares at this point? Primaries are tomorrow? How are those going to go? We'll talk about all of that. And yes, I promise. We will get to the Oscars. So a chock full Ben Shapiro's show. I am Ben Shapiro. Tend to demonize people because don't care about your feelings.

0:27.6

All righty then. Okay. So we begin today with Donald Trump. And I promise there's so much to get to, folks. We're going to speed through all of it because that's what we do here. We get through more material than any seven

0:37.6

shows put together. All right. So on Sunday, Donald Trump was currently leading in last I checked,

0:43.6

I think it's 11 out of 12 or 10 out of 12 of the primary states that are supposed to take place.

0:49.0

Super Tuesday tomorrow. Donald Trump was on CNN with Jake Tapper.

0:55.5

And this is an important story.

1:02.1

So he was on with Jake Tapper, and I don't tend to follow the news too much on Sundays because that's my day to not pay attention to the news.

1:05.7

And especially given what happened last week, it was sort of my weekend off.

1:09.1

Well, that ended when I checked Twitter, always a mistake.

1:12.4

And I saw that people were talking about Donald Trump and the KKK.

1:19.0

And I figured, okay, this has got to be another media hit job, right? I mean, come on. Donald Trump, KKK, you got to be kidding me.

1:27.7

Here is what happened. Donald Trump goes on CNN with Jake Tapper. And here is Jake Tapper asking Donald Trump what is, in essence, a gotcha question. And it is a gotcha question.

1:33.4

There's no question about this, because how many questions was Barack Obama asked about Louis Farrakhan supporting him?

1:37.1

How many questions has Bernie Sanders been asked about the Communist Party supporting him?

1:42.7

The answer is none, of course. But Donald Trump has asked about David Duke supporting his run for the presidency.

1:44.9

David Duke, of course, a former leader in the KKK, the racist organization. And here is Donald Trump answering this series of questions,

1:49.9

and I'll explain why this is important in a moment. Here we go. I'm going to ask you about the

1:54.5

Anti-Defamation League, which this week called on you to publicly condemn unequivocally the racism

1:59.9

of former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke,

2:02.5

who recently said that voting against you at this point would be treason to your heritage.

2:08.3

Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke and say that you don't want his vote or that of other

2:12.6

white supremacists in this election?

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