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Tue Oct 22, 2019, 02:33 PM Oct 2019

Beto O'Rourke stands by comparing Trump administration to Nazis

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke defended comparing the Trump administration to Nazis during a national interview on Monday.

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked O’Rourke if he was going too far in comparing Trump to the Nazis. But O’Rourke didn’t back down.

“Find me a better analogy of another leader of a Western democracy describing all people of one religion as inherently defective or disqualified or dangerous,” O’Rourke said. “That’s what the president has done when it comes to Muslims.”

O’Rourke continued on with more past comments of the president.

“Repeating the lie that Mexican immigrants pose violent risk to this country,” O’Rourke added. “Asking four women of color elected by their constituents to Congress to go back to their home country. And having an almost Nuremberg-like rally where people are chanting ‘Send her back’ or inviting the kind of violence based on the racism that he’s inspired where you have another crowd cheering when someone says ‘shoot them’ when the president says what do we do about these immigrants.”

Read more: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-stands-by-comparing-Trump-14551624.php

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