While many Republicans in the United States Senate expressed squeamishness about former President Donald Trump describing immigrants in the same way that Adolf Hitler once described Jews, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) thinks the former president needs to go even farther than that.
In an interview with The Independent's Eric Michael Garcia, Tuberville said that Trump could have gone much farther than claiming that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of America.
"I'm mad he wasn’t tougher than that because if you’re seeing what happens at the border, we’re being overrun," he told the reporter.
Most of Tuberville's Senate colleagues, even those from deep-red states, were reluctant to give Trump's comments a full-throated endorsement.
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“I obviously don’t agree with that," said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said in an interview with Politico. "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.
In addition to talking about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the country, Trump has also taken to describing his political opponents as "vermin," a term that was also used by the Nazis to dehumanize Jews.
