ABC News anchor Linsey Davis who is set to serve as a moderator for next month's presidential debate between Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump linked Trump to the KKK during a segment at the Democratic National Convention on Monday.
The comments came when Davis was interviewing Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris-Walz Campaign.
"As you know, former President Donald Trump is expected to go campaign in Howell, Michigan, tomorrow. Many people are aware that a month ago, in Howell, KKK protesters marched in the streets with the white robes on and suggested that they support Donald Trump," Davis said. "I'm curious if you make anything about that connection and him going in particularly to Howell tomorrow."
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Whitmer wasted no time in jumping at the opportunity to link Trump with the KKK, calling it a "troubling strategy that we see from the other side to divide us and to scare us and to stoke fear and anger."
Davis was far from the only reporter to make the bizarre comparison, as a reporter asked the former president for comment on Tuesday. As Trump was turning to exit the room, he once again returned to the podium and asked, "who was here in 2021?"
The reporter then responded with "Joe Biden," at which point Trump said "thank you very much everybody," before exiting.
Davis' linking of the former president to the KKK comes as the network is facing allegations of bias due to the relationship between Harris and a high-ranking Disney executive who oversees ABC News.
Dana Walden currently serves as co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, through which she oversees a number of the company's television endeavors, including ABC News and ABC Entertainment. In recent years, she has made a number of donations to Kamala Harris' various political campaigns, according to a report from the New York Times.
Walden first met Harris in 1994, while their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have known each other since the 1980's. Harris has described the ABC News director and her husband as "extraordinary friends" in the past.
The Waldens have donated to every single one of Harris' political campaigns, dating back to her first run for San Francisco District Attorney.
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