Trump Favors Using the ‘Retweet’ Defense LAS VEGAS (AP) - Don-ald Trump has repeated inaccurate and racially charged crime statistics, reposted pledges of support from white supremacists and retweeted dubious questions about' the citizenship of his presidential rivals to an online following of more than 6 million people on Twitter alone. His response when challenged? To dismiss it all as nothing more than harmless "retweets." Unlike any presidential candidate before him, Trump has fueled his campaign for the Republican nomination with a seemingly endless series of eyebrow-raising statements. No responsibility Trump's pattern of repeating things that are false, or just unseemly, and then refusing to take- responsibility, would undoubtedly pose a challenge should he move into the White House - where a president's casual utterance or late-night tweet could move financial markets or spark a diplomatic incident. The latest example came on Saturday [February 20, 2016]. He quoted a supporter on Twitter who was questioning rival Marco Rubio's eligibility to run for president, even though the  Florida senator was born in the U.S. "It's a SLAM DUNK CASE!! Check it!" read the tweet, which linked to a video on a conservative website featuring an unidentified woman arguing that only people with American parents qualify as "natural born." Rubio's parents were immigrants from Cuba who didn't become naturalized citizens until a few years after his birth.   , "Honestly, I've never looked at it," Trump said on ABC's ‘This Week.’ "Somebody said he's not. And I retweeted it. I have 14 million people between Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, and I retweet things' and we start dialogue and it's very interesting," "Bill, am I gonna check every statistic?" he told Fox ' News host Bill O'Reilly earlier this month. "All it was is a retweet. It wasn't from me." Associated Press, ‘Trump Favors Using the ‘Retweet’ Defense,’ February 23, 2016, in the Bloomsburg [PA] Press-Enterprise, page 4.