Whoa, Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders 73.5%-26% in the Dems South Carolina primary. Jeez. There was concern Bernie would peel off Black support for Hillary there and hold her margin down, wasn't there?

Headlines:

Ted Cruz Speculates Donald Trump's Taxes Could Show Mafia Ties-ABC

I don't believe that and I don't believe speculation or anything else when it comes from Ted Cruz.


No Ordinary Audit: Donald Trump Is Facing The IRS `Wealth Squad'-Forbes

Yeah, Trump is being audited, he mentioned that as a reason why he wasn't releasing his tax return. Mitt Romney countered with, "Okay, last year's." Reasonable counter. Trump hasn't done it.

Donald Trump: Republican Party "not treating me right"-CBS

Really? Trump, you're the luckiest mother-fucker on the planet to have those morons not treating you right.

Donald Trump declines to disavow David Duke and the KKK-Vox

Yeah, he did. He appeared on "State of the Union, CNN, Jake Tapper. Vox claimed the question was sort of unfair so I listened to the actual exchange. Duke and the Klan, and other white supremacist groups, have endorsed Trump, so Tapper asked him in the first question, if he would disavow the support of "David Duke and white supremacists." Trump responded that he didn't know anything about Duke, white supremacists and endorsements. Okay, taking his ignorance at face value, he is told in the question there are white supremacist groups who have endorsed him, is there anything more he needs to know? Of course you disavow! Immediately. Tapper then repeats the question: there are white supremacist groups who have endorsed you, will you disavow. Trump answers that he'd "have to look at the group." No you don't have to look at the group you muttonhead, if they're white supremacist groups what refined distinctions might you be looking to discover? Trump does sound sincerely ignorant here. Again, granting him that, he should still immediately disavow. If this was the Black Panthers or IS, would Trump have answered the same way? "I'll have to look at this particular chapter of the Panthers, this particular IS group"? May be! He welcomed Putin's endorsement.

And then finally Tapper says,

Tapper: Ok. I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but —


Trump: Honestly, I don't know David Duke. I don't believe I've ever met him. I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just don't know anything about him.

No. It strains credulity that Trump doesn't "know anything" about David Duke, who has been in the public eye for decades, he was the first "blow-dried" Klan leader, but Trump chooses to answer only about Duke not about the Klan. He knows what the KKK is and refuses to disavow it's support.

I really don't know the basis for the claim that the questioning was "somewhat unfair" but Vox led into the subject with a delicious bit of wryness:

Trump, being a cautious sort and not one to just talk without gathering all the facts and giving a matter serious consideration, said he would have to do more research because at the moment he lacked sufficient information to disavow them.