DUKE SAYS DON FUROR MAKES HITLER LOOK GOOD
Ex-KKK big: Anti-Donald ad boosts Hitler’s rep
DAVID DUKE says comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is YUGEforthe Nazidictator.
“They might be rehabilitating that fellow with the mustache back there in Germany, because I saw a commercial against Donald Trump, a really vicious commercial,” the former Ku Klux Klan leader said on his radio program Tuesday.
The commercial, Duke said, compared “what Donald Trump said about preserving America and making America great again to Hitler in Germany preserving Germany and making Germany great again and free again and not beholdentotheseCommunistson one side, politically who were trying to destroy their land and their freedom, and the Jewish capitalistson the other, who were ripping offthe nation throughthe banking system.”
Duke told the Daily News it’s ludicrous to compare Trump and Hitler.
“It actually lessens any negative image that people have. It makes Hitler seem certainly not as demonic,”Duke said. “It makes Hitler not the demonyousay heis.”
Trump last month disavowed any support from Duke, but not before catching heat over how long it took him to doso.
“I don’t know anything about David Duke,” Trump said, before distancing himself from the hater.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Trump’s GOP pres- idential rival John Kasich ripped the front-runner Thursday over his suggestion earlier this week that voters would riot at the Republican National Convention this summer if he was blocked frombeingthe nominee.
“Nobody should say such things, in my opinion,” Ryan said inside the Capitol. “To even address or hint at violence is unacceptable.”
Kasich blasted the mogul in a series of tweets, calling Trump’sremarks “unacceptable.” “This implicit acceptance of violence is the kind of rhetoric that’s pulling people apart,” Kasich said. “A true leader urges peaceful debate over violence. Leadership requires responsibility.”
A day earlier, Trump warned of “riots” and “bad things” if party leaders blocked him from getting thenomination despite having the mostdelegates.
Trump was active on Twitter throughout the day, but did not address the Ryan and Kasich comments.
Instead, he focused on what he thinks is a bigger issue — his old foe Megyn Kelly. He lashed out at the Fox News Channel moderator as being “crazy,” this time for interviewing rival candidate Ted Cruz onherprogramWednesday night.
“Crazy @megynkelly supposedly had lying Ted Cruz on her show last night,” he tweeted. “Ted is desperate and his lying is getting worse. Tedcan’t win!”
“Crazy @megynkelly is now complaining that @oreillyfactor did not defend her against me — yet her bad show is a total hit piece onme,”headded.