Donald Trump completely dismissed Hillary Clinton's arguments Thursday that he's part of the "alt-right" on the grounds that he doesn't even know what that term means. "Nobody even knows what it is, and she didn't know what it was. This is a term that was just given," Trump said during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday night. "Frankly, there's no alt-right or alt-left. All I'm embracing is common sense."
Cooper then gently reminded Trump that Stephen Bannon, the Breitbart News executive he recently brought on as his campaign CEO, has called his publication the "platform for the alt-right." "I don't know what Steve said. All I can tell you — I can only speak for myself," Trump said.
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