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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on Tuesday became the latest member of Republican leadership to endorse former President Donald Trump in his latest bid for the White House.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on Tuesday became the latest member of Republican leadership to endorse former President Donald Trump in his latest bid for the White House.

Scalise’s announcement comes less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses kick off voting in the Republican presidential primary. All of House GOP leadership, except for House majority whip Tom Emmer, has now thrown their support behind Trump.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            14·
            11 months ago

            Former President Trump has repeatedly said undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” language echoing the rhetoric of white supremacists and Adolf Hitler.

            Why it matters: The phrase “poisoning the blood of our country” has a deep racist and antisemitic history, and the comments come as some Republicans have openly endorsed the once-fringe and racist “white replacement theory.”

            At least four times in recent months, Trump referred to immigrants as “poisoning the blood” of the nation.

            He said it during an interview with a right-leaning website in September.

            He said it again at a rally in December in New Hampshire.

            He repeated it in a Truth Social post in December, then again at a campaign stop in Iowa.

            …

            Reality check: The remarks “poisoning the blood of our country” are straight out of Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical manifesto, “Mein Kampf” — his blueprint for a “pure Aryan” Germany and the removal of Jews.

            “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,” Hitler wrote.

            “He poisons the blood of others but preserves his own blood unadulterated,” Hitler wrote of Jewish males allowing Jewish females to marry white Christians. “Whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race, the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture,” he wrote in another passage.

            https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/axios-explains-the-racist-history-of-trumps-poisoning-the-blood/ar-AA1meN7k

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            11 months ago

            The facts behind those words makes it true. Counter point: your blind denials don’t make them false.

              • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
                9·
                11 months ago

                Which people have offered. Which you have refused to look at. So someone is lying here and it’s either you or yourself.

                  • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    4·
                    11 months ago

                    No. I’ve seen you accuse them of not reading their own links. Even as you didn’t. Not that they should need to post it. This is a generally widely known thing at this point. Either you don’t approve of it or you are GOP.