David Duke Says He Understands Why Scalise's Memory May Have Failed
And he says he wouldn't vote for Scalise because the congressman “puts the interest of Israel over the interest of America.”
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise told a Louisiana newspaper on Monday that he didn't know he was talking to a white nationalist group when he made an appearance as a state lawmaker 12 years ago. David Duke, the one-time Ku Klux Klan leader and head of that group, says that's probably not true.
“It would seem likely he did know, but that doesn't mean that he did,” Duke, 64, said in a phone interview. “And if he had known, I can understand why his memory would fail him a little bit, because there is a McCarthyism today that is far more severe than anything of the McCarthy era.”