GOP Rep. Tim Burchett Defends Trump With Every Excuse Under The Sun
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The Republican used a throw everything at the wall and see if it sticks strategy for questions from CNN's Jim Acosta about Trump's "poisoning the blood" rhetoric.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) tried everything to explain away Donald Trump’s condemned weekend rally claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America by first saying it wasn’t Hitler-esque, then claiming he “didn’t hear” what Trump had said, subsequently criticizing the comment, later dismissing it as “campaign bravado” and finally blaming the rhetoric on Trump being from New York.
And it was all in the space of a short interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta in which he also said that Republican 2024 front-runner Trump had his backing if he wins the GOP nomination.
Burchett initially acknowledged the criticism that Trump’s comment was reminiscent of something that would have been said by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
“I have one rule in my office, it says you never compare anything to the Holocaust or Hitler except the Holocaust or Hitler because of the horrendous nature of that time-period,” said Burchett.
“Do you think Trump should knock this off?” asked Acosta.
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