'Jesus Christ! Of course he's racist!' Beto O'Rourke explodes at Trump after weekend shootings and drops F-bomb at reporters as Jerry Nadler says violence due to president's rhetoric 'reminds me of the 1930s in Germany'
By David Martosko
Daily Mail
August 5, 2019
Two of President Donald Trump's most vocal opponents compared his government to Adolf Hitler's on Monday, saying the president's prejudices against Hispanics and Muslims resemble the Nazis' hatred of Jews.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler stripped the bark off the president in back-to-back appearances on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' program, blaming Trump's past rhetoric for Saturday's mass-shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.
O'Rourke, who represented El Paso in Congress until this year, cited Trump's campaign-era call for a 'ban on Muslims entering the country,' a move he made in response to a 2015 gun massacre by suspected ISIS sympathizers in California.
He said Trump had declared 'all people of one religion [are] inherently defective and should be banned from the shores of this country.'
'The only modern western Democracy that I can think of that said anything close to this is the Third Reich, Nazi Germany.'
He also cited the president 'talking about human beings as though they are animals, making them sub-human to make it okay to put their kids in cages.'
Trump has repeatedly called members of the deadly MS-13 gang 'animals,' and defended his use of the word to describe the Salvadoran narcotics traffickers known for particularly gruesome methods of killing.
Nadler said minutes earlier that Trump's 'disgusting' rhetoric 'reminds me of the 1930s in Germany.'
He was responding to the president's morning message on Twitter, linking legislative action on gun control with his long-sought immigration goals.
'Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform,' the president wrote Monday morning.
'What's the connection between background checks for guns and immigration reform?' Nadler asked. 'That we have to keep guns out of the hands of invading hordes, or less-than-human people coming across our borders?'
'That's the implication. It's disgusting,' he said.
Nadler said the president 'can't get lower than he's been.'
'These shootings were clearly at least in part a result of his racist rhetoric. That's clear. His divisive and racist rhetoric,' he said. 'People have warned that they would lead to violence, and now they have.'
O'Rourke responded to Trump's tweet with a slash of his own: 'Only a racist, driven by fear, could witness what took place this weekend – and instead of standing up to hatred, side with a mass murderer's call to make our country more white. We are so much better than this president.'
He agreed on 'Morning Joe' that the 'hateful, racist, murderous rage' was 'in part inspired by this president.'
'The writing has been on the wall since his maiden speech coming down that escalator, describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. The actions that follow cannot surprise us,' he said.
'And anyone who is surprised is part of this problem right now, including members of the media who ask, "Hey, Beto, do you think the president is racist?"'
'Well, Jesus Christ! Of course he's racist. He's been racist since Day One – before Day One, when he was questioning whether Barack Obama was born in the United States,' he continued.
'He's trafficked this stuff from the very beginning and we are reaping right now what he has sown and his supporters in Congress have sown. We have to put a stop to it.'
An exasperated O'Rourke lost his temper Sunday night when a reporter at a campaign event asked if he thought Trump could 'make this any better.'
'What do you think?' he snapped. 'You know the shit he's been saying. He's been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals.'
'I don't know, like, members of the press, what the fuck?'
Trump, he claimed, is 'not tolerating racism. He's promoting racism. He's not tolerating violence. He's inciting racism and violence in this country. So, you know, I just – I don't know what kind of question that is.'
EDITOR’S NOTE: O’Rourke and Nadler infuriate me. I grew up in Nazi Germany and Trump’s rhetoric in no way even begins to approach the hateful rhetoric of Adolf Hitler. Nor have we had a Kristallnacht where uniformed Nazi storm troopers torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. Trump has not denounced Hispanics and Muslims anywhere near as much or as damnable as Hitler denounced the Jews. And the Hispanics and Muslims in this country have not been forced out of a good job like my father was or shipped off to a death camp like my grandparents were. O’Rourke and Nadler’s claim is far worse than AOC comparing illegal immigrant detention centers to concentration camps. These two Trump-haters should be ashamed of themselves, but then, they have no shame. And worst of all, that sorry creep Jerry Nadler is Jewish and as such he should damn well know better than to compare Trump’s government to Hitler’s.
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