“Honestly, until this phone call, I didn’t realize it was a problem,” the Republican front-runner said Tuesday in a live interview on TODAY.
Trump claimed the crowds simply were “having a good time” and even demanded he lead them in the pledge.
“If it’s offensive, if there’s anything wrong with it, I wouldn’t do it,” he said.
Over the weekend, Trump urged supporters at a rally in Orlando to raise their right hand and repeat a pledge to vote for him. Despite critics comparing the scene to one of Nazi rallies, Trump repeated the effort at two more rallies days later.
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