Who Is David Duke, the White Supremacist Who Endorsed Donald Trump?

Duke tried to make the KKK mainstream by replacing white sheets with business suits.

David Duke reportedly balked at endorsing Donald Trump last year because the Republican candidate was too friendly with Jews, but that’s changed since Trump is now the GOP front-runner, NBC News reported.

Duke, 65, founded the White Youth Alliance at Louisiana State University in 1970, where he became infamous for wearing a Nazi uniform. He later became a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, replacing the white sheets with business suits to make the KKK more mainstream. 

Using the KKK as a springboard, Duke won a seat in the Louisiana legislature as a Republican in 1989 — the first and last time he won an election. He later abandoned the Klan and formed the National Association for the Advancement of White People to press his racist agenda.

In 2002, Duke was convicted of filing a false tax return and was sentenced to 15 months in prison.  

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