Alcindor: Trump Has Benefited from White Nationalists and Does Not Want to Alienate Them

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ALCINDOR: "I'll say that I did a lot of reporting around the RNC and interviewed for the first time in my own career white nationalists that were coming to the convention saying that they were excited for the first time in decades about a president, and that presidential candidate being Donald Trump. So regardless of whether or not he actually wants that to be the case, he has benefited from white nationalists being excited about him. And I think in some ways he understands that and is trying to play this idea that he doesn't want to support them, but he also doesn't want them to turn on the TV and say, 'Well, my president doesn't actually have my back,' because as soon as—even after that press conference where everyone was wondering why he said 'on many sides,' you had David Duke tweeting out, 'Donald Trump needs to remember that white people put him in the White House, so he — so the people that are espousing these views are listening very closely to Donald Trump to understand that."