Beto O’Rourke is one desperate presidential candidate. He’s been blaming Trump for the massacre in El Paso to try and get the attention of the Democratic base and today he actually told MSNBC that Trump is a White Supremacist who’s made that very clear. I’m sure they are going to love that.
Start at 1:08 if you don’t want to watch the entire video (which I totally understand):
.@BetoORourke just told me he thinks @realDonaldTrump is a white supremacist. pic.twitter.com/8PqvycBDWh
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) August 7, 2019
Beto is lying his butt off about Trump.
For example, before he made the claim that Trump is a white supremacist, Beto argued that Trump is racist by citing a rally in Florida Trump had in May, where Trump asked the question “How do you stop these people”, referring to hispanic immigrants, and someone shouted “shoot them”. Beto then claimed that the crowd roared with approval and Trump laughed and said “that’s ok with me”.
Got it? Now watch the video and see what really happened:
Trump was talking about the need for the wall, suggesting there’s no other way really to stop these people. This wasn’t about racism at all. Trump said “how do you stop these people” referencing the fact that he had just told the crowd that he doesn’t let border security officials use firearms to stop the migrants.
Then someone yelled ‘shoot them’, but only a few people laughed. It was when Trump joked that only someone in the Panhandle could get away with that the crowd roared. Trump extinguished an awkward moment with levity and the crowd ate it up.
And just to be clear, Trump NEVER said “that’s ok with me” to that remark.
So why did Beto even bring this up? Because the Washington Post wrote about it two days ago, trying to link Trump to the mass shooting in El Paso:
Three months before one of the deadliest public mass shootings in U.S. history, allegedly driven in part by white nationalism, President Trump asked a Florida audience how to stop migrants from crossing into the United States.
“How do you stop these people? You can’t, there’s —” Trump said, cutting himself off as a rally attendee yelled back, “Shoot them.”
Trump paused and smirked, before responding, “That’s only in the Panhandle can you get away with that statement.” The crowd cheered for nearly 10 seconds before Trump continued.
Fake News. This is why Trump gave them the name and this article shows it’s well deserved.
One more thing about Beto. In order to defend his white supremacy claim, he said, once again, that Trump was arguing that we should bring in more white people from Norway as opposed to black people from Haiti and Africa. But that’s just not true. Trump was arguing for a merit-based system which doesn’t even look at country of origin, and he was making this argument with Democrats (and Lindsey Graham) who were pushing for a lottery system that focuses on countries like Haiti and some in Africa. I believe Trump was simply making the counter point, why countries like Haiti and not countries like Norway? Why are we picking from the poorest countries with these ridiculous lotteries? Trump wasn’t arguing for a lottery system to bring in white people from Norway, he was arguing against the whole thing because he preferred a merit-based system. But Democrats, as usual, twisted his words into racism. And Beto is more than happy to keep these lies going.