“It’s OK to know it was Mussolini, Mussolini is Mussolini,” Trump said when questioned about the quote. “It’s a very good quote. It’s a very interesting quote...What difference does it make, whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else? It’s certainly a very interesting quote.”
The interviewer pressed on, interrogating whether Trump wanted to associated “with a fascist.”
“No,” Trump said. “I want to be associated with interesting quotes...You know, I have almost 14 million followers between Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. We do interesting things, and I sent it out, and certainly it got your attention didn’t it?”
