Senate Republicans 'scurrying away from reporters' after Trump's Hitleresque rant: report

Republicans in Congress do not appear eager to discuss former President Donald Trump's rants about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the United States.

Politico's Playbook reports that Republicans on Capitol Hill are "scurrying away from reporters" who want to ask them about Trump using rhetoric that historians have warned echoes late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

That said, some Republican Senators were willing to go on the record to mildly chide the former president for employing the rhetoric of one of the greatest mass murderers in human history.

“I obviously don’t agree with that," said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). "I mean, we’re all children of immigrants."

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) described Trump's rant as "unhelpful rhetoric," while Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said he "certainly wouldn’t have said that" about immigrants.

Notably, no one called on Trump to apologize for his remarks, which he has now made on multiple occasions.

Politico also tried to track down Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to ask for her opinion on the remarks given that she has taken a keen interest in condemning anti-Semitic remarks made by Ivy League college administrators, professors, and students.

"Unfortunately, Stefanik did not return multiple requests for comment from Politico yesterday about her reaction to the former president’s Hitlerian turn of phrase," the publication writes.