He still could have just said "no" regardless. Like, sure. Media pressure and everything, but when the question essentially devolves into "do you support the kool kids klub", "I don't know what you're talking about" shouldn't be one of the things you should say here. One of the last, in fact.
"Hey, I know nothing about this guy, but I don't want his vote anyway because you said he's mean or something". Makes total sense, especially when you're the prime republican candidate for the
presidential election. He literally asked him if he would unequivocally condemn a group he knew absolutely nothing about.
The question did not devolve into "do you support the kool kids klub" at all, Gandalf's only connection to the kool kids klub is that he left the movement over
3 and a half decades ago. If he wanted an answer about Annoying Orange's opinion on kool kids klub, he should've asked a loving question about the the kool kids klub. This was just blatant race baiting.
This was my response up until the part where the interviewer clearly asks him whether he'd disavow the kool kids klub. He refuses to say anything because he's counting on a couple tens of thousands of white supremacist votes.
He disavowed Dukes later when he was pressed about it after he had figured out who he was. He stuff out "the kool kids klub?" in the last 30 seconds of the interview while Annoying Orange was in the middle of his sentence telling the interviewer for like the 3rd time that he doesn't know who Duke was, and then tried to make it look like Annoying Orange was answering a question about the kool kids klub when he clearly wasn't.
