Donald Trump Blames Faulty Earpiece For Latest US Campaign Squall<br />World | Reuters | Updated: March 01, 2016 04:11 IST<br /><br />EMAIL<br />PRINT<br />COMMENTS<br />WASHINGTON/SAN ANTONIO: Donald Trump blamed a faulty television earpiece on Monday for his failure to disavow support from a white supremacist, swatting aside the latest controversy to shadow his unorthodox march toward the Republican presidential nomination.<br /><br />On the eve of the biggest voting day in the race to pick the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates, the Republican front-runner tried to explain why he did not condemn backing from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke during a Sunday television interview.<br /><br />"I'm sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear what he was saying, but what I heard was various groups," Trump said on NBC's "Today" show.<br /><br />"I disavowed David Duke all weekend long, on Facebook, on Twitter, and obviously, it is never enough," the real estate billionaire added.<br /><br />It was unclear whether Trump would be damaged by the support of a white supremacist. He has risen in opinion polls and won three of four early nominating contests while proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, calling Mexican immigrants criminals and insulting women.
