Reporter: Your thoughts about this hullabaloo over David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan?
Ron Paul: Well, it’s pretty amazing and a campaign has a lot of involvement [?]. It’s interesting that this to me is to create the issue of the Ku Klux Klan. I don’t know if there’s 100 people in the country that even know about it. Of course it has to be condemned, but why are people able to bring this up? No politician would want it to be brought up, so it has to be a plant by the media to instigate it and try to make accusations.
Reporter: So you don’t blame Donald Trump? You blame the media for bringing this up?
Ron Paul: Of course, let’s blame him, and let’s blame the media for trapping him. But the whole thing is, why did it come up? Sure, we can blame Donald Trump, I blame him for everything else, so blame him! But how did this become the issue, the first question you ask him on Super Tuesday, it’s the Ku Klux Klan?
This is unbelievable to me. They have been condemned and they have been marginalized, nobody cares about them, they are evil, they are monsters, and yet now it’s going to be the issue of the day. How in the world did these things occur?
Why aren’t we talking about the military industrial complex, the Federal Reserve, the deficits, the intrusion of our privacy, and all the intrusions of our liberties which are never touched, the protectionism that’s going on and resented, the socialism versus national populism, those are the issues, and today it’s the Ku Klux Klan?