Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke "does deserve a bullet," Eric Trump said Thursday.
"It's disgusting — and, by the way, if I said exactly what you said, I'd get killed for it," Trump, a son of Republican nominee Donald Trump, told Ross Kaminsky of 630 KHOW-AM in Denver. "But I think I'll say it anyway."
Kaminsky had suggested that Duke deserved a bullet to the head.
"The guy does deserve a bullet," Eric Trump said. "These aren't good people. These are horrible people.
"In fact, I commend my father. My father's the first Republican who's gone out and said: 'Listen, what's happened to the African-American community is horrible and I'm going to take care of it.'"
Duke is running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana and he has voiced support for Donald Trump.
He reiterated his backing for the Republican nominee in a debate on Wednesday.
In response to the younger Trump's remarks, Duke told CNN: "That's a good one. I'm in the middle of a project right now."
He asked the cable network to call him back in an hour.
"I have to think about it," he said.