GOPer crashes and burns on TV after blaming Democrats for Trump's 'blood poisoning' speech

A GOPer tried to turn Donald Trump’s widely-reviled “poisoning the blood” speech onto the Democrats late Monday — and was shot down on live TV by a CNN host.

“Well, I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told anchor Abby Phillip when she was asked about the speech Trump gave at a rally Saturday which many have said echoes Adolf Hitler’s “blood poisoning” reference in Mein Kampf.

"You know, when they let — I think the real number is like 15, 16 million people into our country — when they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said.

Phillip asked Malliotakis directly: “Is Trump right that immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country?”

But the congresswoman tried to deflect.

“I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” she said. “When he said ‘they are poisoning,’ I think he was talking about the Democratic policies. I think he was talking about the open border policy.”

“You know, what’s actually poisoning America is the amount of fentanyl that’s coming over the open border," she added, trying to steer the conversation.

But Phillip wasn’t standing for that, blasting Trump’s “rhetoric of Hitler and Mussolini."

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“Congresswoman,” she said, “You're saying that's what you think he is saying. But he was pretty clear, he was saying that the immigrants that are coming in, he says that they are poisoning the blood of the nation.”

“He never said immigrants are poisoning, though,” Malliotakis said. “He didn't say the words immigrants, I think he was talking about Democratic policies.

Clearly frustrated, Phillip hit back: ”He was talking about people.”

Malliotakis then tried to explain that Trump really loves immigrants.

“He was married to immigrants,” she said. “He’s hired immigrants.”

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