Thread: Former KKK leader celebrates Trump campaign shakeup as party take over

Former KKK leader celebrates Trump campaign shakeup as party take over

JAMAL ANDRESSAug 21st 2016 2:43PM

Former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke seems to have more to say about Donald Trump and his latest campaign moves.

Last week, Trump made several major campaign changes, including appointing former Breitbart News Network chairman Stephen K. Bannon to be his campaign CEO.

"I thought it was a masterful choice, to quote other people," said Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

One of those other people is Don Advo, a radio host and contributer to a neo-Nazi blog. Advo and Duke recently took some time to discuss the Trump campaign's decision to hire Bannon.

"So something astonishing has happened. We appear to have taken over the Republican Party," Advo said.

"Well, rank and file, but a lot of those boll weevils are still in those cotton balls, and, uh, the Republican Party may be a European-American populated party, but like a ball of cotton, you can have boll weevils in there that are going to rot it out from the inside," Duke said.

But it's not entirely surprising that a white nationalist would support Bannon. The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that since Bannon took over at Breitbart "the outlet has undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas."

All of this comes as Trump makes an effort to appeal to black voters.

"You're living in poverty! You're schools are no good! You have no jobs! ... What the hell do you have to lose?" Trump said.

According to The Washington Post, he's currently polling below 2 percent with black voters.

Former KKK leader celebrates Trump campaign shakeup as party take over - AOL

I think the media should stop promoting the KKK. David Duke is no longer part of the KKK. Donald Trump has nothing to do with the KKK and has condemned them for years, even withdrew from being a candidate for the Reform Party or some such new party some years ago because David Duke had gotten involved in it in some way because of Duke's prior association with the KKK.

Robert Byrd, the GREAT DEMOCRAT from West Virginia, was an actual member of the KKK at one time, and someone who supported Hillary and whom Hillary supported as well.

So the Media really just needs to stop drawing attention to people who were once part of the KKK, aren't any more, because all this does is promote the KKK which is a Democratic Party institution not a Republican one, and most certainly has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. There may be people who are or were involved in the KKK who support Donald Trump, so what? SO WHAT? People associated or formerly associated with the KKK can still support a candidate who wants to stop illegal immigration and end all these bad trade deals.

Trump's comments at his rallies wanting to help black Americans, especially those in poverty in our inner cities, asking for the votes of all black voters who want a better future was applauded and cheered by all the Trump Supporters at these Rallies.

Donald Trump is not racist. His Trump Supporters are not racist. Race has nothing to do with this election this year, and the Media should stop trying to make it about race. This election is about our economy, immigration, trade, jobs, wages, depleted military, bad foreign defense deals, fixing our infrastructure, education, health care, and yes thanks to Donald Trump fixing the ghettos and blighted areas of our inner cities to create new jobs and better lives for Americans living there.

RACE is not the issue.

FIXING OUR COUNTRY is the issue.

I hope the STUPID, SICK, MENTALLY ILL CORRUPT MEDIA can eventually heal itself quickly enough to come around to that realization before this election is over.

Robert Byrd, the GREAT DEMOCRAT from West Virginia, was an actual member of the KKK at one time, and someone who supported Hillary and whom Hillary supported as well.

Say what you will about Robert Byrd, but he was one of only 2 or 3 Democrats that I remember voting, on two separate occasions, against illegal immigrant amnesty legislation. The old man may have spent over half his time in the U.S. Senate asleep, but we could always count on his opposition to anything that smelled of amnesty.

Originally Posted by MW

Say what you will about Robert Byrd, but he was one of only 2 or 3 Democrats that I remember voting, on two separate occasions, against illegal immigrant amnesty legislation. The old man may have spent over half his time in the U.S. Senate asleep, but we could always count on his opposition to anything that smelled of amnesty.

Exactly. So just because you were once a member of the KKK doesn't make you unqualified to be in public service or vote for someone whose policies you agree with. People change, people learn, people wake up.

I'm sure here in North Carolina, we could go through the entire state and find at least half of the state maybe more that opposed desegregation in the 70's. Does that make them unfit for service today? Do their votes no longer count? If that were the case, there would be few to no candidates for office in North Carolina and almost no voters.

Richard Nixon when he was President is responsible for ending segregation in the South. Most people don't know that. It had been 20 years since the US Supreme Court Ruling of Brown vs Board of Education that Eisenhower supported. Nixon decided it was time to enforce the law, and he did.