Trump campaign rips Clinton video pushing KKK link
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Donald Trump’s campaign fired back Thursday at a new Hillary Clinton video that portrayed the Republican nominee as backed by white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan -- with a surrogate calling the video "revolting."
The web video was tweeted out from Clinton’s Twitter account with the message: “There's a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.":
There's a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.https://t.co/AqB3DM2m0N
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 25, 2016
The video shows white supremacists endorsing Trump and specifically his policies on immigration.
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“Voting against Donald Trump at this point is treason to your heritage,” former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke says in the video.
Trump’s campaign called it a “disgusting new low.”
“This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale,” Pastor Mark Burns, a televangelist and prominent black supporter of Trump, said in a statement.
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Burns went on to call for Clinton to immediately disavow the video: “I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world."
Clinton plans to hammer Trump in a speech later Thursday and tie him to the so-called alt-right movement. In the video, a commentator calls that movement a “dressed-up-in-suits version of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements.”