The Huffington Post reports:
President Donald Trump on Sunday quoted a man he once denounced as a “Hitler lover” to defend his plan to build a wall along the southern border.
In a CNSNews column claiming Democrats were hoping to “reduce the number of white men” in the country, political commentator Pat Buchanan urged Trump to declare a national emergency and use military money to build the wall.
Buchanan, who ran for president three times, has a long history of making racist comments ― and Trump once called him out for it. “Look, he’s a Hitler lover,” Trump said on “Meet the Press” in 1999. “I guess he’s an anti-Semite. He doesn’t like the blacks. He doesn’t like the gays. It’s just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy.”
The Trump portrait of an unsustainable Border Crisis is dead on. “In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with Criminal Records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes & 4000 violent killings.” America’s Southern….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2019
….Border is eventually going to be militarized and defended or the United States, as we have known it, is going to cease to exist…And Americans will not go gentle into that good night. Patrick Buchanan. The great people of our Country demand proper Border Security NOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2019
Just to point out: In the last hour, Trump has made racist jokes about a Democratic senator and approvingly quoted racist xenophobe Pat Buchanan. How is it even controversial to say “Donald Trump is racist”? It’s just who he is, was, and will be.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) January 14, 2019
GOP just put on a show of (suddenly) condemning Steve King for wondering why “white supremacist” is bad.
So I’m sure they’re going to slam Trump for racist attack on Elizabeth Warren and approvingly quoting racist Pat Buchanan on his racist immigration views, right?
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) January 14, 2019
In the racist article Trump approvingly quoted, Pat Buchanan urged him to “militarize” the border to build his wall. He warned that increased diversity and the waning power of white men constitutes a “national emergency.”https://t.co/xN8VcHroPg
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) January 14, 2019
Quoting Pat Buchanan now? Really?
What’s next, David Duke? https://t.co/R2TCHNX5Iu
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 14, 2019
From a Pat Buchanan column that is being hosted on the website VDare https://t.co/zSTABgZpf4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 14, 2019