“It’s okay to know it’s Mussolini. Mussolini was Mussolini. It’s okay to—it’s a very good quote, it’s a very interesting quote, and I saw—I know who said it. What difference does it make whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else?”

– Donald Trump, asked by NBC News’ Chuck Todd about his having been fooled into retweeting a quote by Benito Mussolini by Gawker.