Beto and Warren call Trump a "white supremacist"

[bluewater]

Beto O'Rourke and Elizabeth Warren call President Trump a "white supremacist"
Other 2020 Democrats, like Joe Biden and Cory Booker, have not gone as far in their condemnations of the president
by SHIRA TARLO

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke both said they believe President Donald Trump is a white supremacist — the fiercest denunciations yet of the commander-in-chief's rhetoric from Democratic presidential candidates.

Warren told the New York Times "without hesitation" that Trump is a white supremacist who has "done everything he can to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country."

"He has given aid and comfort to white supremacists. He's done the wink and a nod. He has talked about white supremacists as fine people," Warren told the newspaper, seemingly referring to Trump's infamous "both sides" defense after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a self-professed neo-Nazi killed a counter-protester.

"Donald Trump has a central message," she added. "He says to the American people, if there's anything wrong in your life, blame them — and 'them' means people who aren't the same color as you, weren't born where you were born, don’t worship the same way you do."

O'Rourke, meanwhile, said on Wednesday that the president made it "very clear" that he is a white supremacist who has "dehumanized or sought to dehumanize those who do not look like or pray like the majority here in this country."

The pair's pointed declarations follow last week's back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 31 people dead and 53 injured.

The shooter accused of carrying out the massacre in El Paso wrote in a racist screed that "this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas," directly echoing Trump's repeated warnings of "an invasion" at the border ahead of the 2018 midterm election cycle.

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/08/beto-orourke-and-elizabeth-warren-call-president-trump-a-white-supremacist/

[Doodley]

1. It's ironic that Trump isn't white, but orange.

[bullwinkle428]

2. I think this further increases the chances that he won't even agree

to debate the Democratic GE candidate. Not that I'm blaming any of the Democratic candidates that are calling him out for this...I'm glad they're willing to speak out like this.

[CTyankee]

3. Do you wonder about a Warren/O'Rourke ticket?

I must say I have been impressed with Beto over his handling of the El Paso shooting. Texas is rapidly turning blue and we need those votes for our win come 2020.