Dr. Gil Mobley, wearing a mask resembling US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, sings an original song about Trump, as members of the Culinary Workers Union (background) protest outside the Trump-owned Hotel Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 23 February 2016.  EPA/MIKE NELSON
Dr. Gil Mobley, wearing a mask resembling US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, sings an original song about Trump, as members of the Culinary Workers Union (background) protest outside the Trump-owned Hotel Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 23 February 2016. EPA/MIKE NELSON

 

New York – The Anti-Defamation League is calling on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to repudiate support from former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

In a statement Thursday, the group calls on Trump to distance himself from Duke and other white supremacists and “publicly condemn their racism.”

Duke on Wednesday urged listeners of his radio program to volunteer and vote for Trump, according to audio posted by the website Buzzfeed. He told them that voting against Trump at this point “is really treason to your heritage.”

Duke said he hadn’t formally endorsed Trump, but supports his candidacy and voting for him as “a strategic action.”

Trump has previously said he wouldn’t want Duke’s endorsement and would repudiate it “if it made you feel better.”

As reported by Vos Iz Neias