Yesterday, Republican Party standard-bearer and likely nominee Donald Trump refused to denounce David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. This is the same Trump that retweets white supremacists and calls Mexican immigrants rapists. Despite all of this, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy recently said he’ll “work with Donald Trump,” and NRCC Chairman Greg Walden embarrassingly compared Trump to Ronald Reagan. Speaker Paul D. Ryan has also pledged to support Trump if he is the nominee.
Congressman Tim Walberg said other presidential candidates can learn from Trump – called his offensive comments nothing but “mistakes,” and even praised Trump for the direction his campaign was going. This is despite the fact that Trump’s call for mass deportation of immigrants is nothing short of anti-constitutional.
Unfortunately, this embrace of Trump and his nativist campaign is not that surprising for a party that proudly defended their Majority Whip despite his association with David Duke and his white supremacist group.
“Congressman Walberg thinks Trump’s nativist, anti-constitutional comments are just ‘mistakes,’ and even thinks other presidential candidates can learn from him,” said DCCC Spokeswoman Sacha Haworth. “Not totally surprising, given that Walberg thinks we are all “slaves to perversion,” but given that Trump has waffled on his support from the Ku Klux Klan, is Walberg really still comfortable with the direction Trump’s campaign is going?”