From The Hill late this afternoon, South Dakota Senator John Thune and others are calling out former President Trump’s attack on immigrants, where he claimed that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”:
Asked about Trump’s controversial comments, which have drawn comparison to Nazi rhetoric before and during World War II, McConnell pointed out the hypocrisy of the remarks.
“It strikes me that didn’t bother him when he appointed Elaine Chao the secretary of Transportation,” he said.
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Other Senate Republicans have recoiled at Trump’s racially-charged language that immigrants are poisoning the country’s blood.
“My grandfather was an immigrant, so I don’t agree with that sentiment,” said Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.).
Given that 9/10 of us or more had family members emigrate to our country at one time or another (Even President Trump), this statement might be one of the dumber things Trump has said. We can largely agree that illegal immigration is a problem that needs to be addressed by the government, but that kind of statement is not good for our nation.
Too bad we didn’t have a worthy opponent against Thune last time.
You can just say you only want white people here. No need to complain about Thune.
Most of our immigrant ancestors were white. Dumb comment.
It doesn’t matter what vile and nasty things he says as most who read this site will still gleefully vote for him. And that fact is unbelievably sad.
awwww the attempt to stop his election loss midstream, to overturn the results on useless rumors he started, to pressure congress to keep him in power, HE DID IT ALL FOR US, don’t you get it? you should be grateful and want to go places where you trespass and do damage in his name. he will need all of us to rise up and do that very soon. read his tweets. xweets. whatever.
Likely he meant ‘illegal’ immigrants; just a slip of the tongue when he’s doing all that talking.
But by all means dig in those spurs, 2024 is almost here!
I believe Trump meant the illegal invaders who are coming into our country in record numbers. The number of military age young men coming in is very concerning. The drug and human trafficking coming in are atrocious. Our borders need closed, and every last illegal invader needs to be deported. We allow legal immigration of vetted applicants.
The illegal invaders are being housed, fed, educated and receiving healthcare at the legal taxpayer’s expense. Some are also receiving payments higher than most couples on Social Security, and without paying in for their entire working lives. Birthright citizenship needs to end as well as all their “benefits”.
So… neither Trump nor his campaign know when they’re using Nazi rhetoric? I am certain the Steves know. Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.
Well stated!
Mark it must have been a mistake along with all the other Hitler quotes, Desire to be a Dictator, his crucial part on January 6th, Outing an Isreali spy working in Syria to the Russians visiting the White House 2 weeks after he is elected which Israel had to get out immediately before their asset was captured and killed. That and others were all nothing.
Trump/Noem 2024 right?
If you don’t take this literally, which is what Trump meant, illegal immigrants are “poisoning” the country economically, socially, and demonstrating to the legal citizens that laws don’t matter. The rights of illegals are being put ahead of legal citizens. How is any of this healthy for our nation? Compassion is one thing, but this open border is being done solely for votes and power.
Thune once again shows that he is out-of-touch with South Dakotans and does not truly represent us. He works for Washington.
Didn’t Thune just resoundingly win re-election by the voters you seem to speak of? Take one seat and save another for your ego and overstated opinions if you would please.
You bet! Let’s get trump back in there to declare martial law and send in the military to shut down the border and on the streets to get back to a white ‘merica. We don’t need anymore wetback fruit pickers or slaughter house workers poisoning the country. Sieg Heil Orange Jesus!
Let’s see now, when Trump was in office there were NO martial law, NO military at the border, and the border was NOT being overwhelmed as it is today. Oh yeah, blacks had the lowest unemployment rate ever under Trump. You must be a racist who doesn’t want blacks to be employed and earning a living. And you sound just like a Nazi brown shirt of the 1930s. Quit drinking the kool aid, it’s poisoning your little brain
stand back!! gaslighting hazard!! extinguish all open flames!!
“Let’s see now, when Trump was in office there were NO martial law, NO military at the border, and the border was NOT being overwhelmed as it is today. Oh yeah, blacks had the lowest unemployment rate ever under Trump.”
Instead of your typical smart-ass quips, why don’t you provide evidence to prove what was stated is wrong?
They are bringing Fentanyl with them and it’s killing people
What exactly did he say?
I thought fentanyl was coming from China, and if not, lets repeal that funding and partnership? This whole fear of fentanyl is tough to keep track of, what’s next a new version of COVID that we are all suppose to run from and give up our rights for?
Maybe we should just stop fearing “things”, especially things that can’t hurt you unless you actively put them inside your body.
“Maybe we should just stop fearing “things”, especially things that can’t hurt you unless you actively put them inside your body.”
Boy, that’s a statement that is jammed with logic…(that was sarcasm, you may have to look that word up)
The people at the border are desperate. They’ve been tyranized and terrorized. The people who flee here are family people (the great majority..of course there are some criminals…just as would happen if Americans started flooding into Canada…) they are Christians, the majority Catholics, and they are also people who have worked all their lives. The immigration process is a mess right now but the problems of terrible governments in Latin America are the cause of the problem. Nobody is trying to escape Costa Rica or Panama.
Thune makes a dumber statement. Essentially his official stance is now stand with Biden.bring them on , give them welfare , phones and lodging. All the while Thune has had all these years to fix immigration and has no results. Actually does he have any results? Next he will want to give illegals voting rights.
What about our homeless? What about minority Americans being pushed out of jobs by low wage illegals? What about the immigrants who did it the legal way?
Thune is the new Trojan Horse amongst the republicans. Trump is our only hope of fixing the mess created by John and his swamp cronies. If we want to save our country we need to start realizing who is really dumb!!!
i get the sense thune just wants trump to stop the dictatorship talking points, for which all other republicans have to spend valuable interview time walking back and re-spinning.
If talking about a dictatorship, we already have it…jailing the J6 attendees for years without official charges, refusing to enforce existing laws regarding the open border, arbitrarily shutting down pipelines, stealing an election, weaponizong government agencies, etc etc.
“J6 attendees”. OMG. Attendees???
They overwhelmed the Capitol and were interfering with the election process. They battled police for hours and were prosecuted for it. They were found guilty in a court of law.
Then you talk about “stealing an election”. Over 50 times… you lost in court on that one.
And “pipelines”. Really?
Those are evidence of a dictatorship? In your mind… that is a dictatorship?
You must not realize how our laws work. Read them for the capital, and tell me you think those people did not break the laws. They 100% violated the laws on the books. Those same laws you want to hang on to in order to lock everyone else up apply to your side too. If you don’t like the laws, try and change them, but don’t try and tell me no laws were broken, that just makes you look stupid and shows you have never once read the capital laws. Search this and learn: 40 USC 5104: Unlawful activities
SPRINGER – your POTUS 45 sent angry goons into congress to find and hurt/kill vp pence and anyone else they could find; he sat in a dining hall with a big screen TV for three hours watching the violence; asked to stop them, trump encouraged them to “stay peaceful” like keep doing what you’re doing; after three hours when it was obvious pence wouldn’t be hanging from a gallows in front of a tv camera, trump ended the riot and rioters quickly complied and got out of there on trump’s order.
your noise about biden being a ‘dictator’ is nonsense – i don’t prefer him as pres, but he understands the weight and tradition of the office, and has certainly stayed within the powers of the office.
i know many of you want to start screaming back at me about election theft and how zelenskyy is personally hacking into your 401k’s and whatever other high anxiety you inflate yourself with every hour, so i’ll stop now. but don’t forget we don’t care how much you love trump, and we think you believe very many crazy and made-up things about him while ignoring what he really does.
stand in front of a mirror and watch yourself saying “putin’s a good guy” over and over, and really hear yourself like we hear you.
Obviously, Thune doesn’t have anything else to do. He certainly hasn’t done anything except collect his paycheck.
He tells you that he wants to be a dictator. He has long admired most of the world’s autocrats. Now, he’s using the language of Adolph Hitler.
Gee… maybe it’s time to get a clue?
Trump tried to overturn an election that he knew he had lost. Even if we throw all the dictatorship talk aside, he still did one of the most un-American things in our entire history. Trump is a scum bag.
agreed
You people are insane. Go read/watch Thune’s speech (which PP posted) about what needs to be done regarding illegal immigration and I am sure you will agree with most, if not all, of it. The comment here is about Trump’s racist, xenophobic comment about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of our country, a phrase that harkens Hitler and among the more vile things a presidential candidate could say. Real conservatives know Trump is not suited for office.
I could have excused Trump if he had said it once and had no intention to reference the Nazi and anti-inter racial language. Instead, Trump repeated it so I will assume he meant to make the connection to Naziism and racism.
You’re all wrong. He was talking about his wife and explaining why he cheated on her.
Trump is the only available answer to our failing government. Our SD US senators and representative have failed us.
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What is your alternative plan? I would be glad to entertain it. The last three years have been a disaster.
As both my Great-Grandfathers were “illegal immigrants I try not to take Trumps’s remarks personally. My Irish Great Grandfather could not enter the US as he fled the Irish Potato famine during the “Irish Exclusion”…after the Civil War prejudice against Irish Catholics was high in this country and Congress passed laws severely limiting Irish immigration. Instead he went to Canada with his wife and kids and in Canada changed his name to something more German and entered the US through Detroit where immigration law enforcement was known to be lax. My Danish Great Grandfather, from Schleswig -Holstein had seen his province invaded and taken over by the German Kaiser. The Germans forced the Danes into the German Army. He fled Denmark for Sweden, while being hunted by German agents, changed his Danish name to something more Swedish, and hopped a boat for the US. Both entered the US under false names and both from a false country of origin (Canada and Sweden)…These are common stories of our ancestors, and the thing they had in common to today’s immigrants is that all of them were and are desperate to leave an oppressive country with no future for them or their children.
Transforming America. Is that what Obama started? Do not remember the government asking us if we are OK with this?
https://gettr.com/post/p2x8hpt2e30
Interesting all the complaints about a garbled message from Trump but none about the word salads spewed by Biden.
The fact is, with age one loses the ability to string words together into coherent sentences.
It’s absurd to believe that Trump is advocating genocide. He, probably, was trying to speak metaphorically to the effect that illegal immigration is sucking the lifeblood out of the country, like vampires. Whatever.
It was Obama who said he had campaigned in 57 states, that a child having an asthma attack should be given a breathalyzer test, and that an elderly person in need of a pacemaker would be better off being given a single pain pill.
Remember when Michelle Bachman declared that Gardasil was a “government injection” being forced on teenaged girls? That was epic!
What we have in the White House now is a senile old man who was the King of Gaffes before he lost his marbles, and a Vice President who, when asked a question she cant answer (which is often,) laughs inappropriately..
As entertaining as it is to watch old people embarrass themselves, you need to remember that if you are lucky, you’ll live long enough to do the same thing.
Biden is old and has infirmities, but I think he’s frank about most things. He’s been less evasive than most Presidents (remember when President Reagan was asked a question he didn’t like, he’d cup his ear and pretend he didn’t hear the question…a classic case of evasiveness.) We will find out if there is anything to the charges he faces in Congress for allegedly bailing out his son’s business deals. If so, he won’t be the first father to have done that. His lawyers say he was not in office in the time period assistance was allegedly given to his son. Trump is three years younger and a good candidate for a Stroke.