GOP congressman defends Trump by calling Obama a racist
New York. Rep. Lee Zeldin excuses Trump because, in his mind, President Obama is a racist.
Click here for reuse options!The Republican Congressman sat down with CNN’s John Berman and Kate Bolduan Tuesday morning to address his support for Donald Trump head-on in the aftermath of the newest controversy embroiling the campaign. Trump, the party’s presumptive nominee for President, has been arguing that an Indiana-born judge of Mexican heritage can not fairly oversee a lawsuit involving Trump University given the candidate’s proposed southern border wall…
“I think that Mr. Trump made a regrettable mistake with his statement,” Rep. Zeldin admitted.
But as soon as Berman and Bolduan turned up the heat on Zeldin to hold him accountable for defending someone embattled in a controversy of racism, Zeldin seemed to buckle and squirm with discomfort…
“Congressman, this is very important. You agree with Paul Ryan,” said Bolduan. “You agree on this already stunning statement coming from the House Speaker, that what Donald Trump has said is the textbook definition of a racist comment. If Donald Trump, in this comment, is engaging in racism, are you still comfortable supporting him?”
…Rep. Zeldin gave a rambling response about “offensive microtargeting,” which seemed to fool just about no one, and eventually offered up this stunning defense (emphasis mine):
There’s more than just words to define a person and, by the way, aside from words, there’s a whole lot more to define everyone, but you can easily argue that the President of the United States is a racist with his policies and his rhetoric.
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anothertoothpick June 7th, 2016 at 13:24
When the going gets stupid, the repubs just can’t get out of their own way.
Suzanne McFly June 7th, 2016 at 14:45
And we aren’t going to stop them.
granpa.usthai June 7th, 2016 at 16:41
not no more.
If they’re just hell bent and determined to jump off the grand canyon when they don’t get what they want, I can only suggest they try flapping their arms on the way down – ain’t like it’s going to do any harm to try.
Suzanne McFly June 7th, 2016 at 18:56
Yeah they can flap away, it will make good comedy.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 08:16
we need to stop following them into stupidity and start being leaders, let them chase after us for awile
Richard_SA June 7th, 2016 at 13:50
all it took was the election of a moderate Black President for Republicans to become unhinged.
Suzanne McFly June 7th, 2016 at 14:45
And now their candidate is orange, seems like an odd choice but they do a lot of things I don’t understand.
granpa.usthai June 7th, 2016 at 16:38
orange is a mixture of YELLOW, which we ALL know trump is already – and red (blood shed in defense of America) which he will be more than happy to oblige once he sees the amount of deposits that can be made in offshore bank accounts. A yellow CIC eager and ready to have Americans blood shed in a far off corner of the world, just so he can get MORE $$$ = orange.
Leastwise, that’s how I’m figuring it.
Suzanne McFly June 7th, 2016 at 18:56
Your statement would apply to the little bush as well and if those 8 years proved anything, it is something we should never repeat.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 08:15
it somehow seems to fit, orange makes a lot of people feel sick…..I can’t go to Village Inn anymore because in my area they changed the colors and included even the plates to orange…seems fitting that Trump would be orange.
Suzanne McFly June 8th, 2016 at 15:49
He didn’t have that effect on me before (making me feel sick), but I am starting to feel that way now when I see him.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 16:26
he made me sick long before his TV show was on. One of my friends watched his show for awhile and I just couldn’t believe it.
We used to have a pretty good interest in education based on facts in my state….except for the distorted American history…..which just makes me angry. Trump and Palin never should have had followers in my state. I guess that should be able to be said in every state….
I wish liberals would vote!
Suzanne McFly June 8th, 2016 at 19:01
If more liberal voted, our country and the world would be so much better.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 23:19
in one election on the news this week, under 10% of the registered voters went to the polls
Suzanne McFly June 9th, 2016 at 09:14
That is pathetic.
clemans June 9th, 2016 at 09:21
you are of course correct.
I don’t know what way is worse…to think that there are so many people who have conservative brains, more than liberal brains…or to face the fact that it seems like more because they go to the polls more than liberals do. Both seem pathetic. But that is where the conservatives get the belief that it has to be illegals helping dems get elected to the White House. The perception is that there are so many conservatives. And the voting districts are gerryrigged, that helps them too, but when liberals show up in presidential years, they can’t gerryrig that as easily and that is when more liberals turn up. We could get rid of these batshit crazy people if only we could get the liberals to understand it hurts them to not show up. bush proved there is a reason why voting matters.
Suzanne McFly June 9th, 2016 at 09:33
I am on my phone texting people on voting days telling them to get to the polls but I know a lot still don’t make it. Most claim their one vote doesn’t make a difference but I tell them it is a lazy excuse. Because they feel like that, we have candidates like rump, if more of us were involved, someone like rump would never be taken seriously and he would never have the opportunity to get to the point he has gotten.
clemans June 9th, 2016 at 09:53
that is good Suzanne, I often go to the headquarters of a candidate I support and do the phone banks to make calls. In my region there are people who organize free rides for ANY voter who needs a ride. My husband used to drive the donated vans and I helped on the phones to match location with people in need.
ANYTHING one can do helps, even if one person more gets out, they might encourage others in their family to go at another time.
Suzanne McFly June 9th, 2016 at 11:27
Good job Clemans, you helped a lot of people vote who may not have otherwise. That is how we will win the elections, I hope more can get involved like you have.
clemans June 9th, 2016 at 17:38
I try very hard, I as taught to be involved by my republican grandmother, back when the republicans and Chamber of Congress-type people thought being a community organizer was a proud thing to be, back when republicans put some effort into making their communities a better place to live and being happy about it.
Suzanne McFly June 9th, 2016 at 17:52
Sounds like it was the republican party before it was bought by the millionaires.
clemans June 9th, 2016 at 18:10
yes, it was most likely that. She was a small business owner, former English teacher from Boston. Very active in her church, community, hurricane clean-ups, and in the republican party. A bit on the stuffy side, not really humorous, but a good person all the same.
Suzanne McFly June 9th, 2016 at 19:24
There was a time republicans and democrats could live together in harmony, I have even respected some republicans in my past. The ones of today challenge me, I am related to one and I do love him but I refuse to talk politics with him and now that rump is leading his party he hasn’t been so talkative…..not that I am complaining.
clemans June 9th, 2016 at 23:40
I am trapped in a conservative hellhole. And I complain a great deal about it. SMILES
Suzanne McFly June 10th, 2016 at 10:49
Well you found your outlet :)
clemans June 10th, 2016 at 12:14
the friends I have made on the two forums I spend time on have been my salvation……tracey marie, Gina, mistlesuede, Orig, Me, catseye,….you, and all of the other ones I haven’t mentioned from here, and dean, JMMII, Citizen 13, guzzi and several others from MoJo have all been my salvation from the conservative insanity that I see in my area. You have all challenged me to be better than I had planned to be, each in your own way too.And for that and the laughs, I am grateful.
Suzanne McFly June 10th, 2016 at 12:32
I feel safe in saying we are better for having you here, I don’t like speaking for others but I believe I am correct in this circumstance. And I am grateful to you :)
clemans June 10th, 2016 at 16:38
my best compliments have come from teachers…..my goal is to never disappoint them. thank you!
granpa.usthai June 7th, 2016 at 16:31
just wait til you see them under Hillary’s rule!
oh dear lord!
WTF is going to happen when we get an Hispanic (real one, not the make believe RepubliKons ) in the White House!?!
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 08:13
no, they were unhinged earlier, they just put some effort into hiding it a bit.
Newt and the wasted tax money over Bill and Monica…..while telling us we had to settle for 50,000-150,000 Americans dying each year because they didn’t have health care and we had no money to fix it…..that was being unhinged. Especially as Newt was in parked cars on DC city streets getting blow jobs from wives of his co-workers while wasting those tax dollars.
alpacadaddy June 7th, 2016 at 14:16
“Project” much, Congressman?
Suzanne McFly June 7th, 2016 at 14:44
And the perfect follow up would be….”Really Congressman, please explain what policies and rhetoric you are referring to”.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 08:09
great use of critical thinking Suzanne……anybody can make claims, republicans are sure short on backing them up …with facts.
Suzanne McFly June 8th, 2016 at 15:46
Facts are not their friends, it is so much easier just to make stuff up.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 16:23
they like to say that facts are biased for liberals, I REALLY want to believe that liberals are biased in favor of facts over fantasy. I really want to believe there are people out there who want to save the nation and who want us to be better than we seem to be.
Suzanne McFly June 8th, 2016 at 19:00
The one thing rump has done was he ripped the band-aid off, I had no idea how bad we were until he ran. If you told me 2 years ago, a large segment of the population would support a racist, sexist, bigot I would of said you were being paranoid. I am sad that I am related and know a couple of his followers.
granpa.usthai June 7th, 2016 at 16:27
republican easy argument that POTUS Obama is a ‘racist’.
he’s Hawaiian damnit!
end of argument.
see how easy it is for republicans to explain THEIR policies and rhetoric?
Tim Coolio June 7th, 2016 at 17:34
Obama has conducted himself in the most
exemplary manner in the face of unprecedented
obstruction, hatred and bigotry from the GOP,
he and all his family are the finest people I have
seen in the White House since Jimmy Carter.
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 08:08
my die-hard republican, Reagan, military, OLD NRA father-in-law said that anybody could see that Carter was an honorable man. I never heard him say anything else about any democrat…..but I do suspect he really didn’t like Johnson.
bpollen June 8th, 2016 at 04:05
Kind of a third-person form of “I know you are, but what am I?”
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 08:06
this is just so funny that I can’t take his comment seriously…..somebody who would support Trump calling another person racist…..well, I hope he isn’t holding his breath because I am not switching from my support for Bernie or Hillary for him or Trump.
What this guy still doesn’t get…..saying things like that to begin with is what brought the republican party this far down and by doing so, puts the US is grave harm. That is why the republicans are now finding themselves on the verge of collapsing their party altogether.
bpollen June 8th, 2016 at 15:27
In the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche DuBois says: “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Republicans have a slightly different version of that: “I have always depended on the gullibility of the Republican base.”
clemans June 8th, 2016 at 16:19
a few weeks ago I posted a comment about a conversation I had about their claims of illegals voting for democrats. One lady was the batshit crazy FOX is the news kind of person, and the man was a FOX viewer who also help run an election site.
She kept claiming that illegals were voting, he did too, only I walked him through the process in his state, and he agreed…..the likelihood of illegals voting was so slim as to be impossible…..but he still knew they did it and that was why democrats won the White House…..he agreed it couldn’t happen, but it did anyway.
Yes, they count on that gullibility because it is dependable.
Remember the brain scans that show the difference between liberals and conservatives, they have no choice but to be as limited in thinking as they are.