White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that Donald Trump’s reluctance to distance himself from prominent white nationalist David Duke shows “all we need to know” about the Republican presidential frontrunner.
“You know Mr. Trump says there’s more that he needs to learn about Mr. Duke before he can render an opinion,” Earnest said during his daily press briefing. “But I think we now know all we need to know about Mr. Trump to render our own personal opinion of his candidacy.”
Trump refused to disavow the support of Duke, who is a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, in an interview Sunday. He later attributed his comments to a “lousy earpiece.”
Watch Earnest’s comments below:
WATCH: @PressSec responds to Trump’s David Duke comments: “We now know all we need to know about Mr. Trump” https://t.co/WPgd5fYrem
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