Fox’s The Five Defend Donald Trump’s Refusal To Disavow David Duke And The KKK

If ever you needed proof there’s almost nothing Donald Trump can do or say that his loyal Fox News supporters won’t defend, watch The Five turn him into a victim over his refusal to disavow the support of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.

Significantly, the show did not play the clip of Trump repeatedly refusing, on CNN’s State of the Union, to disavow Duke to an astounded Jake Tapper. Instead, cohost Eric Bolling began the Fox News discussion by saying Trump “tried to clear up a racially charged controversy involving unsolicited support from former KKK leader David Duke.” Bolling noted that Trump disavowed Duke’s endorsement on Friday but faced criticism for not repeating his repudiation again on the Sunday show.

Fox did play a clip of Trump laughably blaming “a lousy earpiece” and claiming he had not properly heard Tapper. But if you watch the CNN video (below), it’s pretty clear that Trump had no trouble hearing anything.

Cohost Jesse Watters went along with Trump’s excuse. “I think the earpiece must have been made in China, it was a lousy earpiece. Bad earpiece.” Then Watters deflected to attacking Democrats on race. “Hillary Clinton actively sought out the endorsement of Democratic KKK Senator Robert Byrd. Trump didn’t seek out any endorsement, he disavowed it.”

Watters’ next lame deflection: “Barack Obama sat in racist Reverend Wright’s church pews for 20 years. Never even disavowed it and then all of a sudden Trump, I don’t think he sat in David Duke’s pews.”

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