"These aren't good people. These are horrible people," Eric Trump said of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. | Getty Eric Trump says David Duke 'deserves a bullet'

Eric Trump told a Colorado radio host Thursday that he believes former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke "deserves a bullet."

Speaking to Ross Kaminsky of 630 KHOW Denver, as first reported by CNN, the third child of Donald Trump was asked about POLITICO's Wednesday report that white nationalists, neo-Nazis and the KKK were planning to try to suppress African-American voting on Election Day in an attempt to aid the Republican nominee. The host, who claimed the report was a "hit piece" against the Trump campaign, then asked Eric Trump about his father being continuously asked to disavow Duke, who Kaminsky said "desperately needs a bullet to the head."


In response, Eric Trump agreed with the sentiment.

"If I said exactly what you said, I'd get killed for it but I think I'll say it anyway," he said. "The guy does deserve a bullet. I mean, 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.'"

Donald Trump earned widespread condemnation in February when during an interview with CNN he failed to denounce the KKK and disavow Duke. The Trump campaign later issued a sound rebuke of Duke, who had put out robocalls urging voters to cast their ballots for Trump. Duke has also mounted a bid in Louisiana for a U.S. Senate seat.

"David Duke is a bad person, who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years," Trump said during an MSNBC appearance on March 3.

Duke has said his supporters plan to monitor polls with an eye toward “some of the more inner-city areas."

Trump Wednesday earned the notorious endorsement of The Crusader, a newspaper affiliated with the KKK. The Trump campaign later distanced themselves from the endorsement in a statement, calling the publication "repulsive."