[WideRight05]

Fair enough, here is the timeline with regard to that whole deal as published by the Washington Examiner. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donald...le/2584511

Feb. 25, Duke announces on his radio show that he will vote for Trump though he does not formally endorse him.

Feb. 26, Governor Chris Christie endorses Trump at a news conference. At that same conference a reporter informs Trump of the David Duke endorsement. "I didn't even know he endorsed me," Trump said. "David Duke endorsed me? Okay. I disavow, okay? I disavow."

Feb. 28, CNN's Jake Tapper brings up the David Duke endorsement on CNN's "State of the Union." Despite having disavowed Duke on Friday, Trump doesn't reiterate the disavowal. Instead, he claims he's never heard of David Duke. "I don't know anything about David Duke. I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists."

Notice how the reporter says that Trump is now saying that he's never even heard of David Duke? Trump never said anything of the kind, he said he didn't know anything about David Duke, which is different from saying he hadn't ever heard of him.

Feb. 29, Bill O'Reilly declares the whole thing bogus. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/02/2...non-story/

For weeks after, the story just would not die.

I don't doubt what you're posting, TRT, I was more referring to Trump using situations like these to garner media coverage for himself. Almost every politician prefers to have positive coverage and I'm sure that Trump does too, but like most that have been in Hollywood it doesn't bother him to receive negative publicity. Any free publicity to him, be it positive or negative, is good publicity.

Trump, I think, deliberately took the position he did in the CNN video to force media outlets to cover him more a couple days before an important primary vote. I agree with you that Trump was against the David Duke endorsement the entire time, but handling it the way he did resulted in additional coverage a couple days before the primary that normally would have been allotted to other candidates. Trump has been able to use situations like that to his advantage. He makes a statement or sometimes he is vague on an issue and media outlets eat it up. That's more of what I was meant in my prior post.