Trump said immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America. Tommy Tuberville thinks the former president is too soft
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville expressed his disappointment on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s comments accusing migrants of “poisoning the blood of our country” weren’t even more xenophobic.
During a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday, Trump told a crowd of supporters that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country … That’s what they’ve done. They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world — not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia — all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.”
While President Joe Biden’s campaign pointed out similarities between Trump’s comments and the writings of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Republicans were quick to excuse the screed. Tuberville took things a step further by complaining to reporters that Trump’s comments weren’t harsh enough.
Thank you. Yes. At this point “stupid” is just an excuse, almost a "get-out-of-further-questioning-free card, and a mechanism through which people can avoid having to measure what it means if his actions are knowing and deliberate.
Which they are. They are far too specific and pointed and effective to be accidental. Which means that he is very likely involved in illegalities, planning his own place and part in the next coup, possibly doing it for pay (or getting paid in promises), a hater of the country and constitution he swore to uphold, and of course completely amoral.
To say the same thing in different words, he is an American Senator plotting the downfall of the American government and doing everything in his power to kneecap its military leadership while possibly being on Putin’s payroll and almost certainly plotting with Trump to invalidate the results of our next election.
Because NO one is both that orderly and specific in intent AND that stupid.
I would also note that he only backed down when the entire Senate had already begun its end run around his tactics, plus the whispers that he was only doing it to save high-level military leadership slots for Trump supporters in a coup finally started to gain a tiny bit of traction in the press and would only have gotten louder.
That’s not stupid, that’s cutting losses and stepping aside so the next guy can step up and start again in the new year.