Republican says he’s mad Trump wasn’t ‘TOUGHER’ when he said migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’: Senator Tommy Tuberville insists ex-president should have gone further because of what is happening at the border
While many Republicans cringed at Donald Trump's description of migrants in language similar to Adolf Hitler, Senator Tommy Tuberville insisted the former president's comments were not harsh enough.
The former president said last weekend that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“I'm angry that he wasn't tougher than that, because have you seen what's happening at the border?” the Alabama Republican said in response on Tuesday.
When Mitch McConnell was asked about the comment, the Republican Senate leader joked to reporters, “Well, it strikes me that that didn't bother him when he appointed Elaine Chao as Secretary of Transportation.”
Republican Senator JD Vance of Ohio passionately defended Trump, insisting his comments were taken out of context.
“First of all, he didn't say immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country. He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country, which is objectively and clearly true for anyone who looks at the statistics on fentanyl overdoses,” Vance said.
“Why do you think Donald Trump's language targets the blood of immigrants and not the blood of American citizens who are being poisoned by the fentanyl problem,” Vance continued. 'This is ridiculous. “If you look at the speech in context and look at what's going on, it's clear that he was talking about the very clear fact that the blood of Americans is being poisoned by a drug epidemic.”
He said it was “absurd” to compare Trump's comments to Hitler's rhetoric.
Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said, “I think it's useless rhetoric,” said a Hill report. And fellow Senate GOP leader Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said she “obviously” disagrees with his language.
“We are all children of immigrants,” the West Virginia Republican said. 'It's just part of his campaign rhetoric, I think. I don't know, I can't explain it.'
Tuberville is a thorn in the side of Senate Democrats for blocking about 400 military promotions in protest against the Pentagon's abortion travel policy.
It's early December Tuberville finally lifted his blockade all but eleven were four-star promotions after members of his own party joined the Democrats and pressured him to concede.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said he kept a hold on 11 four-star generals but would lift his hold on military promotions after a months-long blockade.
Trump said of migrants at a rally last weekend: “They are poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they did.'
He added that illegal immigrants were “poisoning mental institutions and prisons around the world.”
The words appear to be taken from Adolf Hitler's 1925 manifesto Mein Kampf, in which the German dictator wrote: “All the great cultures of the past perished only because the original creative race became extinct from blood poisoning.”
Trump told his supporters that immigrants were “pouring into our country” from Africa, Asia and around the world. He even claimed that 'no one even looks at them, they just come in.'
At the same meeting, Trump also quoted Putin in claiming that President Joe Biden is a “threat to democracy.”
“Even Vladimir Putin… says Biden's, and this is a quote, politically motivated prosecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rot of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.” , the ex said. – said the chairman.
On the other hand, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he doesn't care what kind of language Trump uses because his policies were more effective than Biden's in quelling the southern border crisis.
While Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-Ky.) says Trump's rhetoric crossed the line, he still thinks Biden has failed to do anything to adequately address rising illegal immigration.
“My grandfather was an immigrant, so I don't agree with that sentiment,” the Senate's No. 2 Republican said.
“We are a nation of immigrants, we are a hospitable country, but we are also a nation of laws,” he added. “We cannot allow this rampant law-breaking at the southern border. It's gotten out of hand. It's insane.
JD Vance defended Trump, saying his comments were taken out of context
In an aerial view, thousands of immigrants, most wearing thermal blankets, wait to be processed at a U.S. Border Patrol transit center in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 19, 2023.
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Migrants captured by Representative Tony Gonzales in Eagle Pass, Texas
“We are not upholding the rule of law in our country and I think this is wrong and it sends all the wrong signals to the rest of the world,” Thune concluded.
Trump's latest rally, where he also praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Hungary's authoritarian leader Viktor Orban, gave Democrats more ammunition as the ex-president also faces 91 crimes in Washington, DC, Miami and New York. York.
“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un and quoted Vladimir Putin as he ran for president promising to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” a spokesperson for Biden's re-election campaign said .
Woman holds a child as U.S. border agents monitor migrants at a transit center in Eagle Pass
Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) has criticized Donald Trump's language in describing illegal immigrants, claiming he is more concerned about actions.
“You know, we're talking about language,” he told NBC News Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. “I don't care what language people use as long as we get it right.”
“You know, I think the president has a way of talking that sometimes I don't agree with,” Graham added. “But he actually delivered to the border.”
'People are looking for results. If all you want to talk about about immigration is the way Donald Trump talks, you're missing a lot.”
This isn't the first time Trump has been compared to authoritarian leaders — he even suggested in an interview earlier this month that he would rule like a dictator, but only on “day one” of his second term.