Pastor Mark Burns, a prominent supporter of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, said Thursday that Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a “disgusting new low” with a web video tying Mr. Trump to the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.
“This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale,” Mr. Burns said in a statement released by the Trump campaign. “I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world.”
Mrs. Clinton’s campaign released a web video Thursday tying Mr. Trump to the KKK, with former Klan leader David Duke saying in the video that voting against Mr. Trump is “really treason to your heritage.”
The video also plays an interview in which Mr. Trump doesn’t immediately renounce support from Mr. Duke and white supremacists, though he has disavowed such support in other exchanges.
It comes before a speech Mrs. Clinton is to deliver Thursday in Nevada tying Mr. Trump to the “alt-right” ethno-nationalist movement.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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