'Donald Trump was Hitler?' Mayorkas impeachment hearing goes off the rails

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) stood his ground Tuesday after suggesting Donald Trump's rhetoric was like Adolf Hitler.

"Donald Trump speaks about immigrants with the same rhetoric that Hitler did, claiming that immigrants like me and my family, and I quote, pollute the blood of this country," Garcia stated at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing to consider the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) interrupted, but Garcia refused to be stopped.

"I will not yield," he said before noting, "Donald Trump actually has said that he wants to build alligator moats along the border."

After Garcia finished, Pfluger sought to clarify the remarks.

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"Can you clarify what you mean by the analogy that you just said that Donald Trump was Hitler?" Pfluger asked.

"Well, when you say that you want to pollute, when immigrants are polluting this country, that to me and the blood of this country, that is absolutely reminiscent of things that Adolf Hitler said," Garcia replied. "And, in fact, his imagery, the way he supports white nationalism, the way he supports white supremacy, and those kinds of comments are completely offensive to immigrants and hopefully to all Americans in this country."

"So just to be clear, you're drawing an analogy between Donald Trump, saying he is like Hitler?" Pfluger pressed.

"I'm drawing an analogy that the rhetoric that Donald Trump uses is very much the rhetoric and the type of rhetoric that Adolf Hitler used," Garcia remarked.

Watch the video below from the House Homeland Security Committee.