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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,485 posts) Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:25 PM Jan 2019

Steve King's Racist History: A Timeline of Offensive Comments

Representative Steve King of Iowa, who was stripped of his House committee seats on Monday night after making remarks defending white supremacy, has a long history of racist comments and insults about immigrants.

Republicans rarely rebuked him until recently, with some suggesting that Mr. King’s language and views were new to them.

“This just popped up on Friday,” Representative Steve Scalise, the second-ranking House Republican, said on Sunday, when asked if the party would penalize Mr. King for saying, in an interview with The Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”

National Republicans courted his political support in Iowa: He was a national co-chairman of Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential effort and of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ 2018 election. House leadership appointed him chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice. And President Trump boasted in the Oval Office that he raised more money for Mr. King than for anyone else.

Yet Mr. King, who won a ninth term in November, has publicly promoted white nationalists and neo-Nazis on Twitter and disparaged nonwhite groups for years.

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Steve King's Racist History: A Timeline of Offensive Comments (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP

yeah, but now he says he'll vote for a resolution... dhill926 Jan 2019 #1

Iowa should send him packing to Europe... riversedge Jan 2019 #2

dhill926

(16,391 posts)

1. yeah, but now he says he'll vote for a resolution...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:41 PM

Jan 2019

condemning white supremacy. Making it all good with repubs no doubt. Assholes...

riversedge

(70,466 posts)

2. Iowa should send him packing to Europe...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:44 PM

Jan 2019

King has made lots of friends there.............

........... Mr. King to The Washington Post days later: “The idea of multiculturalism, that every culture is equal — that’s not objectively true … We’ve been fed that information for the past 25 years, and we’re not going to become a greater nation if we continue to do that.”

■ In a tweet during a meeting in Amsterdam with Mr. Wilders and Frauke Petry, the leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, Mr. King says, “Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end.”

■ In October, Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right party, tweets a picture of her meeting with Mr. King, the first elected American official to meet her.

■ Also in October, Mr. King meets in Austria with leaders of the far-right Freedom Party, including Heinz-Christian Strache and Norbert Hofer. The party was founded in the 1950s by former Nazis.

2017

■ “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” Mr. King tweets in his endorsement of Mr. Wilders in Dutch elections.

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