President-elect Trump told New York Times reporters and staff on Tuesday that he disavows the alt-right groups that support him, which many say are effectively neo-Nazi, white surpemacist groups.
“I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group,” Trump said, according to a tweet from New York Times reporter Mike Grynbaum. “It’s not a group I want to energize. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why.”
Trump also defended Steve Bannon, his senior adviser who many have charged as a white nationalist. But Trump said those reports have been “very hard on him.”