Donald Trump Mussolini

Donald Trump Mussolini, Donald Trump over the weekend appeared to flip-flop on the endorsement of David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Kluz Klan.

Duke endorsed the U.S. Republican presidential contender on Thursday saying that “voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage,” reported the Guardian.

In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Trump at first didn’t disavow the endorsement, appearing as though he didn’t know who Duke was.

“Just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?” Trump said on CNN’s State of the Union. “Certainly I would disavow it if I thought there was something wrong.”

The reporter posed the question on whether Trump would disavow the Klansman three times with little success in getting Trump to clarify his opinion.

“I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists,” he said.

Not long after the interview, Trump’s Twitter account tweeted that he already disavowed Duke at a rally on Friday. He did not, however, disavow all support by the KKK, which had been one of the focal points of the CNN interview.

As I stated at the press conference on Friday regarding David Duke- I disavow. pic.twitter.com/OIXFKPUlz2

– @realDonaldTrump
Trump’s previous run-ins with David Duke included when he ran for the Reform Party presidential nomination in 2000. When Trump ended his campaign, he pointed to Duke as one of his key reasons for deciding to leave the race.

Donald Trump knew David Duke was a klansman in 2000, yet denies knowledge of him now. https://t.co/P3eMUj3lWP pic.twitter.com/kJQUKqMxim

– @JGreenDC
“The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Patrick] Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora] Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep,” he wrote in a statement to the New York Times.

But that’s not where Trump’s being linked to the Klan ends.

In 1927, supporters of Benito Mussolini’s fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan rioted in New York’s Jamaica district, according to the Washington Post. Seven men were arrested for the resulting fight, including Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father.

A New York Times reporter posed the question to Trump regarding his father’s supposed involvement in the riot.

The celebrity businessman initially confirmed that his father did live on a street near where the riots happened, but when the topic of the arrest came up Trump immediately denied any connection.

“My father was not involved, was never charged and I never even heard this before,” said Trump to Times reporter, Jason Horowitz.

Coincidentally, the younger Trump was involved with a mishap based around Mussolini.

He unknowingly retweeted one of Mussolini’s famous quotes Sunday morning.

“@ilduce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain”

– @realDonaldTrump

The retweet turned out the have been a long running game by the news site Gawker. According to a post on their website, two Gawker staff members created a Mussolini bot by the name “ilduce2016” which would tweet Mussolini quotes, but attribute them to Trump.

“Gawker Media Executive Editor John Cook expressed some concern that the joke behind the account was far too obvious, and wouldn’t trick anyone but a complete idiot,” Alex Pareene wrote on Gawker, revealing that they had been behind the stunt.

On NBC’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd posed to Trump that “it is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep,” was from the fascist dictator.

When Trump waffled in response, Todd asked if Trump minded that he associating himself with Mussolini.

“No, I want to be associated with interesting quotes,” he replied, and said that his Twitter followers like to see that he posts interesting things.

Trump has received endorsements from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and from Maine Governor Paul LePage.

As of Saturday, he also had the support of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the previous leader of Front National, the far-right French political party known for its anti-immigration policies, reported the Guardian.

Si j’étais américain, je voterais Donald TRUMP Mais que Dieu le protège !

– @lepenjm
“If I was American, I would vote for Donald Trump,” Le Pen tweeted in French.

Florida Teacher Poisoned

Florida Teacher Poisoned, Three middle school students in Volusia County are facing felony charges for allegedly putting red pepper flakes into their teacher’s soda.

Deputies said it happened after a 12-year-old girl was upset about being disciplined by the teacher.

One student allegedly distracted the teacher, another grabbed the soda and a third dumped the pepper in.

Sheriff’s deputies said the teacher began to choke and experience shortness of breath.

The girls were arrested Friday and taken to a juvenile detention center. They face poisoning charges, as well as tampering with consumer products.

Voice actor remembered: Joe Alaskey Dies at 63

Voice actor remembered: Joe Alaskey Dies at 63, Joe Alaskey, who grew up in Watervliet, moved to Hollywood and gained fame as a voice actor who mastered the vocal tics and slurpy lisps of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award, died Wednesday of cancer. He was 63.

He had lived outside Los Angeles for the past 30 years, but came home a year ago after his cancer diagnosis. He was on hospice care and died at his Green Island apartment with his brother at his side.

Alaskey topped the ranks of the rarefied company of elastic-mouthed performers who made their living by performing the voices of animated characters — heard but not seen.

His credits ranged from the voices of Grandpa Lou Pickles on “Rugrats” to Jackie Gleason, a voice so spot-on that Gleason personally chose Alaskey in the 1980s to re-record selected dialogue from “lost episodes” of “The Honeymooners.”

He was hired to do many of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc — including Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester, Tweety and others — after Blanc died in 1989.

Bogus priest arrested: Fake Priest Arrested

Bogus priest arrested: Fake Priest Arrested, Los Angeles police have arrested a man accused of pretending to be a Catholic priest.

Erwin Mena was apprehended Tuesday by authorities in Los Angeles’ Elysian Park on suspicion of grand theft. According to L.A. detectives, Mena, 59, posed as a priest for several years and used the charade to swindle thousands of dollars from various parishes within the archdiocese of Los Angeles. A criminal complaint filed by the L.A. country district attorney’s office states that he is being charged with 22 felonies and 8 misdemeanors, including multiple counts of grand theft, falsifying a public document,and perjury.

Following his arrest Mena stated he had no comment on the charges “at this time.”

Reports indicate the act has been going on since the mid-1990s, and that during that period Mena celebrated Masses, heard confessions and officiated funerals, in addition to at least one wedding. This all occurred as the fake priest was pocketing money from various church coffers. LAPD detective Gary Guevara affirms Mena even sold fake trips to see Pope Francis while the pontiff was visiting the United States in September and then pocketed the estimated $1,000.

Sued over firings: Yahoo Employee Sues

Sued over firings: Yahoo Employee Sues, Amid massive layoffs of nearly 1,700 staff, Yahoo is facing more problems with its employees: A former Yahoo employee filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming the company illegally fired him because of his gender and rigged performance reviews.

Gregory Anderson was fired from his Sunnyvale, California post as former editorial director for Yahoo’s cars, travel, small business, homes, and shopping sites in November 2014 after receiving a raise and promotion.

According to the lawsuit filed Monday with the federal district court for Northern California, Anderson was among the 600 Yahoo employees who scored too low on the company’s quarterly performance reviews — scoring a 2 or an “occasionally misses” on a five-point scale in at least one performance category — and were also terminated for it.

Anderson, who was attending a Yahoo-approved journalism fellowship at the time he was fired, claims his direct managers routinely promoted and hired women over men — even if they were less qualified — and Yahoo as a whole modified performance ratings to justify layoffs.

Based on the complaint, the gender bias favoring women stretched to the top with CEO Marissa Mayer, who reportedly agreed to downgrade a male employee’s performance rating because his direct manager found him annoying and “didn’t want to be around him.”

The lawsuit echoes similar complaints lodged against Microsoft last year, which claims the company’s performance review system was subjectively used to promote gender bias — against women.

Gender discrimination in the tech industry has been well-documented: Women are paid 40 percent less than their comparably skilled male counterparts, they receive more criticism in performance reviews, and two-thirds experience sexual harassment in the workplace. But in recent years, most major tech companies have become more transparent with their demographic statistics and more aggressive with their diversity outreach efforts.

Anderson’s complaint, however, is unique in that it asserts that Yahoo, under Mayer’s direction, is actively discriminating against men, when she has refuted claims that Silicon Valley has gender-based problems.

“I never play the gender card The moment you play into that, it’s an issue,” Mayer previously told Medium. “In technology we live at a rare, fast-moving pace. There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that’s relevant.”

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