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Clinton Details Trump’s Alt-Right, White Supremacist Ties

Thursday afternoon Hillary Clinton delivered a historic speech repeatedly pounding Donald Trump for his ties to racism, white supremacism, and the alt-right movement.

Clinton warned supporters, “there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.” 

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“This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump. It’s a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this.”

Below, the full text of her remarks, as prepared for delivery, and the full video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6Q-OEXm4k

Thank you, Reno!  It’s great to be back in Nevada…

 

My original plan for this visit was to focus on our agenda to help small businesses and entrepreneurs. 

This week we proposed new steps to cut red tape and taxes, and make it easier for small businesses to get the credit they need to grow and hire. 

 

Because I believe that in America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it.  

 

We’ll be talking a lot more about our economic plans in the days and weeks ahead.

 

But today, I want to address something I hear from Americans all over our country. 

 

Everywhere I go, people tell me how concerned they are by the divisive rhetoric coming from my opponent in this election. 

 

It’s like nothing we’ve heard before from a nominee for President of the United States.

 

From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. 

 

He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. 

 

His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous. 

 

In just the past week, under the guise of “outreach” to African Americans, Trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and described black communities in insulting and ignorant terms:  

 

“Poverty.  Rejection.  Horrible education.  No housing.  No homes.  No ownership. 

Crime at levels nobody has seen… Right now, you walk down the street, you get shot.” 

 

Those are his words. 

 

Donald Trump misses so much. 

 

He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field…

 

The vibrancy of black-owned businesses…Or the strength of the black church… He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive…And he certainly doesn’t have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color.

 

It takes a lot of nerve to ask people he’s ignored and mistreated for decades, “What do you have to lose?”  The answer is everything!

 

Trump’s lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough. 

But what he’s doing here is more sinister. 

 

Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters.

 

It’s a disturbing preview of what kind of President he’d be. 

 

This is what I want to make clear today:

 

A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military. 

 

If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?

 

Now, I know some people still want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.  

They hope that he will eventually reinvent himself – that there’s a kinder, gentler, more responsible Donald Trump waiting in the wings somewhere. 

 

After all, it’s hard to believe anyone – let alone a nominee for President of the United States – could really believe all the things he says.  

 

But the hard truth is, there’s no other Donald Trump.  This is it. 

 

Maya Angelou once said:  “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” 

 

Well, throughout his career and this campaign, Donald Trump has shown us exactly who he is.  We should believe him.

 

When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants. 

 

Their applications would be marked with a “C” – “C” for “colored” – and then rejected.  

 

Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed.

 

The pattern continued through the decades. 

 

State regulators fined one of Trump’s casinos for repeatedly removing black dealers from the floor.  No wonder the turn-over rate for his minority employees was way above average.

 

And let’s not forget Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called “Birthers.”  

 

He promoted the racist lie that President Obama isn’t really an American citizen – part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black President.

 

In 2015, Trump launched his own campaign for President with another racist lie.  He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. 

And he accused the Mexican government of actively sending them across the border.   None of that is true.

 

Oh, and by the way, Mexico’s not paying for his wall either.  

If it ever gets built, you can be sure that American taxpayers will be stuck with the bill.

 

Since then, there’s been a steady stream of bigotry. 

 

We all remember when Trump said a distinguished federal judge born in Indiana couldn’t be trusted to do his job because, quote, “He’s a Mexican.” 

 

Think about that. 

 

The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage. 

 

Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”

 

To this day, he’s never apologized to Judge Curiel.

 

But for Trump, that’s just par for the course.

 

This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name “white-genocide-TM.”   Trump took this fringe bigot with a few dozen followers and spread his message to 11 million people.

 

His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image – a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills – that first appeared on a white supremacist website.

 

The Trump campaign also selected a prominent white nationalist leader as a delegate in California.  They only dropped him under pressure.

 

When asked in a nationally televised interview whether he would disavow the support of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Trump wouldn’t do it.  Only later, again under mounting pressure, did he backtrack.

 

And when Trump was asked about anti-Semitic slurs and death threats coming from his supporters, he refused to condemn them.

 

Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones.

 

Trump said thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks.  They didn’t. 

 

He suggested that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.  Perhaps in Trump’s mind, because he was a Cuban immigrant, he must have had something to do with it.  Of course there’s absolutely no evidence of that.

 

Just recently, Trump claimed President Obama founded ISIS.  And then he repeated that nonsense over and over.

 

His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health.  All I can say is, Donald, dream on. 

 

This is what happens when you treat the National Enquirer like Gospel.

 

It’s what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs.  He said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.

 

Trump didn’t challenge those lies.  He went on Jones’ show and said: “Your reputation is amazing.  I will not let you down.”

 

This man wants to be President of the United States.

 

I’ve stood by President Obama’s side as he made the toughest decisions a Commander-in-Chief ever has to make. 

 

In times of crisis, our country depends on steady leadership… clear thinking… and calm judgment… because one wrong move can mean the difference between life and death.   

 

The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors. 

 

Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.

 

It’s another reason why Donald Trump is simply temperamentally unfit to be President of the United States.

 

Now, some people will say that his bluster and bigotry is just over-heated campaign rhetoric – an outrageous person saying outrageous things for attention. 

 

But look at the policies Trump has proposed.  They would put prejudice into practice.

 

And don’t be distracted by his latest attempts to muddy the waters. 

 

He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth… but we know where he stands.

 

He would form a deportation force to round up millions of immigrants and kick them out of the country.

 

He’d abolish the bedrock constitutional principle that says if you’re born in the United States, you’re an American citizen.  He says that children born in America to undocumented parents are, quote, “anchor babies” and should be deported. 

Millions of them. 

 

And he’d ban Muslims around the world – 1.5 billion men, women, and children –from entering our country just because of their religion.

 

Think about that for a minute.  How would it actually work?  People landing in U.S. airports would line up to get their passports stamped, just like they do now. 

But in Trump’s America, when they step up to the counter, the immigration officer would ask every single person, “What is your religion?”

 

And then what? 

 

What if someone says, “I’m a Christian,” but the agent doesn’t believe them. 

Do they have to prove it?  How would they do that? 

 

Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has distinguished itself as a haven for people fleeing religious persecution. 

 

Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.

 

Come to think of it, there actually may be one place that does that.  It’s the so-called Islamic State.  The territory ISIS controls.  It would be a cruel irony if America followed its lead.

 

Don’t worry, some will say, as President, Trump will be surrounded by smart advisors who will rein in his worst impulses. 

 

So when a tweet gets under his skin and he wants to retaliate with a cruise missile, maybe cooler heads will be there to convince him not to. 

 

Maybe. 

 

But look at who he’s put in charge of his campaign.

 

Trump likes to say he only hires the “best people.”  But he’s had to fire so many campaign managers it’s like an episode of the Apprentice. 

 

The latest shake-up was designed to – quote – “Let Trump be Trump.” To do that, he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website called Breitbart.com, as campaign CEO. 

 

To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they’ve published:

 

“Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy.” 

 

“Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?”

 

“Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield”

 

“Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage.” 

 

That one came shortly after the Charleston massacre, when Democrats and Republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divides. Breitbart tried to enflame them further.

 

Just imagine – Donald Trump reading that and thinking: “this is what I need more of in my campaign.”

 

Bannon has nasty things to say about pretty much everyone. 

 

This spring, he railed against Paul Ryan for, quote “rubbing his social-justice Catholicism in my nose every second.” 

 

No wonder he’s gone to work for Trump – the only Presidential candidate ever to get into a public feud with the Pope.

 

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, Breitbart embraces “ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right.  Racist ideas. 

Race-baiting ideas.  Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’”

 

Alt-Right is short for “Alternative Right.” 

 

The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.”

 

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the “Alt-Right.”  A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.   

This is part of a broader story — the rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism around the world. 

 

Just yesterday, one of Britain’s most prominent right-wing leaders, Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum on leaving the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi. 

 

Farage has called for a ban on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are quote “worth less” than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race — that’s who Trump wants by his side.

 

The godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

 

In fact, Farage has appeared regularly on Russian propaganda programs. 

Now he’s standing on the same stage as the Republican nominee.  

 

Trump himself heaps praise on Putin and embrace pro-Russian policies.

He talks casually of abandoning our NATO allies, recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and of giving the Kremlin a free hand in Eastern Europe more generally. 

 

American presidents from Truman to Reagan have rejected the kind of approach Trump is taking on Russia. 

We should, too. 

 

All of this adds up to something we’ve never seen before.

 

Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment.  But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone.  Until now.  

 

On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. 

“We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,” one white supremacist said. 

Duke laughed.  There’s still more work to do, he said.

 

No one should have any illusions about what’s really going on here.  The names may have changed… Racists now call themselves “racialists.”  White supremacists now call themselves “white nationalists.”  The paranoid fringe now calls itself “alt-right.”  But the hate burns just as bright. 

 

And now Trump is trying to rebrand himself as well.  Don’t be fooled. 

 

There’s an old Mexican proverb that says “Tell me with whom you walk, and I will tell you who you are.”

 

We know who Trump is.  A few words on a teleprompter won’t change that.

 

He says he wants to “make America great again,” but his real message remains “Make America hate again.”

 

This isn’t just about one election.  It’s about who we are as a nation. 

It’s about the kind of example we want to set for our children and grandchildren.

 

Next time you watch Donald Trump rant on television, think about all the kids listening across our country.  They hear a lot more than we think.

  

Parents and teachers are already worried about what they’re calling the “Trump Effect.” 

 

Bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslims, and immigrants.  

 

At a recent high school basketball game in Indiana, white students held up Trump signs and taunted Latino players on the opposing team with chants of “Build the wall!” and “Speak English.” 

 

After a similar incident in Iowa, one frustrated school principal said, “They see it in a presidential campaign and now it’s OK for everyone to say this.”

 

We wouldn’t tolerate that kind of behavior in our own homes.  How can we stand for it from a candidate for president? 

 

This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump.  It’s a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this. 

 

Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the Party to get out.

 

The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims “love America just as much as I do.”

 

In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat.  Senator McCain made sure they knew – Barack Obama is an American citizen and “a decent person.”

 

We need that kind of leadership again.

 

Every day, more Americans are standing up and saying “enough is enough” – including a lot of Republicans.  I’m honored to have their support. 

 

And I promise you this: with your help, I will be a President for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.  For those who vote for me and those who don’t. 

For all Americans.

 

Because I believe we are stronger together.

 

It’s a vision for the future rooted in our values and reflected in a rising generation of young people who are the most open, diverse, and connected we’ve ever seen. 

 

Just look at our fabulous Olympic team. 

Like Ibtihaj Muhammad, an African-American Muslim from New Jersey who won the bronze medal in fencing with grace and skill.  Would she even have a place in Donald Trump’s America?

 

When I was growing up, Simone Manuel wouldn’t have been allowed to swim in the same public pool as Katie Ledecky.  Now they’re winning Olympic medals as teammates. 

 

So let’s keep moving forward together. 

 

Let’s stand up against prejudice and paranoia. 

 

Let’s prove once again, that America is great because is America is good.

 

Thank you, and may God bless the United States.

 

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‘Have to Get Back to Law and Order’: Trump Declares at NYPD Officer’s Wake

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Donald Trump attended the wake of the slain New York City police officer who was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop this week. The four-times indicted ex-president demanded America “get back to law and order,” barely days after a New York judge imposed a gag order in the case where the presumptive Republican presidential nominee faces 34 felony counts for “falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election,” according to the New York District Attorney.

That damaging information included hush money payments to several women including an adult film actress.

“We have to stop it,” Trump said Thursday, speaking before the cameras about crime as he stood under an umbrella in front of police officers. “We have to stop, we have to get back to law and order. We have to do a lot of things differently because this is not working. This is happening too often.”

“Police are the greatest people we have. There’s nothing and there’s nobody like them. And this should never happen,” Trump said as he lamented how repeat offenders “don’t learn because they don’t respect.”

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“We’ve got to toughen it up. We’ve got to strengthen it up. It should never be allowed things like they shouldn’t take place and to take place so often,” said Trump, who is out on bail and currently faces 88 felony charges after three were dropped.

The Trump campaign announced that the ex-president had been invited to attend the wake.

“President Trump is moved by the invitation to join NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller’s family and colleagues as they deal with his senseless and tragic death,” Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, according to The Daily Beast.

The Associated Press added that “Trump has deplored crime in heavily Democratic cities, called for shoplifters to be shot immediately and wants to immunize police officers from lawsuits for potential misconduct. But he’s also demonized local prosecutors, the FBI and the Department of Justice over the criminal prosecutions he faces and the investigation while he was president into his first campaign’s interactions with Russia.”

“He has also embraced those imprisoned for their roles on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when a mob of his angry supporters overran police lines and Capitol and local police officers were attacked and beaten.”

Earlier on Thursday NBC News reported on Trump’s mischaracterizations of crime.

“Surging crime levels, out-of-control Democratic cities and ‘migrant crime,'” the network noted. “Former President Donald Trump regularly cites all three at his campaign rallies, in news releases and on Truth Social, often saying President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame.”

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“But the crime picture Trump paints contrasts sharply with years of police and government data at both the local and national levels,” NBC added. “FBI statistics released this year suggested a steep drop in crime across the country last year. It’s a similar story across major cities, with violent crime down year over year in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”

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‘Hunger Games at NBC News’: New McDaniel Revelations Have ‘Enraged’ Staffers, Report Says

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The backlash from NBC News’ hiring of Ronna McDaniel is not over. New reporting from Puck, CNN, and The Washington Post reveals the considerable efforts from top NBC and MSNBC brass to recruit, hire, and support the former RNC chair who promoted false election claims, was allegedly involved in helping Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, and refused to say Joe Biden had been elected fairly.

Staffers at NBC News and MSNBC were outraged at McDaniel’s hiring, but new details about behind-the-scenes efforts reportedly have increased that outrage.

Some critics are either calling for resignations of NBC News and MSNBC  leadership, or questioning how long they can ride out the mess.

“What is Brian Roberts going to do?” CNN‘s Oliver Darcy asks. “The Comcast boss is watching an unceasing five-alarm fire rage at 30 Rock, scarring the reputation of NBC News and threatening to consume multiple parts of the Cesar Conde-run NBC Universal News Group.”

“Conde has lost control of his organization, prompting industry insiders to wonder how he continues to remain in his role as chairman of the NBC News Group. In the words of one veteran media executive I spoke to Wednesday, ‘It’s inconceivable that he should,'” Darcy writes, saying Conde’s actions and those of his top executives have “hosed gasoline” on the scandal.

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That scandal involves these revelations from Puck’s Dylan Byers, who reports, “bringing McDaniel to 30 Rock had been part of a nearly two-month-long effort that was spearheaded by Budoff Brown and her boss, NBC News President Rebecca Blumenstein, with buy-in from Conde and his deputies at both NBC News and MSNBC.”

“Rashida Jones,” he adds, “the president of MSNBC, was very interested in having McDaniel appear as a contributor on her network, as well.”

But this bombshell has drawn a good deal of attention. Noting how Chuck Todd led off the very public pushback against the hiring of McDaniel, Byers reports, “On Sunday, Budoff Brown reached out to McDaniel’s aide and former chief of staff at the R.N.C., Richard Walters, to see if there were any friends or colleagues who could speak up on her behalf.”

“The two sides also discussed having these folks call attention to what they saw as a double standard—after all, this was the same network that was turning Psaki, a former Biden White House Press Secretary, into a Maddow-adjacent prime time star. Walters later assured Budoff Brown that they’d been able to advance conservative pushback on social media against Todd, specifically, and that this might give NBC News some cover, for which Budoff Brown thanked him.”

CNN, pointing to those details, adds, “staffers inside NBC News are enraged at the fact an executive would have engaged in such behavior.”

Former Chicago Tribune editor Mark Jacobs, who now writes about politics and the media, called for the firing of Jones, Blumenstein, and Budoff Brown.

Other critics are expressing concerns on multiple fronts.

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“It’s like the hunger games at @NBCNews. Every day new, horrible stories of journalism & corporate malpractice. Every single one of these managers must go,” observed Jennifer Schulze, a media critic who was a Chicago Sun-Times executive producer, WGN news director, and adjunct college professor of journalism.

She also highlights a Washington Post report that ropes NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt into the mess.

“Every @NBCNews exec who thought hiring a reputed liar & phony elector co-[conspirator] needs to resign or be fired,” Schulze says.

“The @NBCNews managers who recruited & signed an election denier should be out the door, too,” she adds. “Not only was it downright offensive to hire Ronna, it was journalism AND corporate malpractice.”

Pointing to his newsletter, former Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer writes, “NBC’s ill-fated decision to hire Ronna McDaniel is a story of a media outlet unwilling to accept the ways Trump changed politics, but it’s also one of the best arguments for Dems need to build our media ecosystem ASAP.”

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He calls McDaniel’s hiring “evidence” the media has “yet to accept the reality that this is not a normal election between a Republican and a Democrat.” And adds, “An [industry] that prizes objectivity above all else, is incapable of accurately covering an election where one candidate is a normal politician and the other is an insurrectionist. Many in the media would rather stumble into autocracy than take a side.”

Veteran journalist and Sirius XM host Michelangelo Signorile observes, “We couldn’t have asked for a better situation to shine a bright light on the corruption of the corporate media—and its impulse to legitimize MAGA extremism and lawbreakers for profit—than NBC’s hiring former RNC chair, election denier, and Trump enabler Ronna McDaniel.”

And he warns, “The forces that made the coup-plotting former RNC chair a paid contributor are still shaping news and information about this pivotal election.”

 

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Lawmaker Slammed for Claiming College Basketball Players Were Actually ‘Illegal Invaders’

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Michigan MAGA Republican state Rep. Matt Maddock is under fire after claiming three buses were “loaded up with illegal invaders.” The buses, according to multiple reports, were actually loaded with the Gonzaga University basketball team arriving for March Madness.

“Happening right now. Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?” Rep. Maddock wrote on social media Wednesday evening, tagging far-right former U.S. Congressman Pete Hoekstra, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands under Donald Trump and is now the state’s Republican Party chair.

Informed of his error on social media, Rep. Maddock doubled down, and attacked.

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“Probably teams for the NCAA Mens Sweet 16 playing at LCA on Friday and Sunday,” a user on X wrote.

“Sure kommie. Good talking point,” Maddock quickly shot back.

ABC affiliate WXYZ executive producer Maxwell White, responding to the Maddock’s original post wrote: “Just to be clear, this was the Gonzaga basketball team. Photos show Gonzaga getting on an Allegiant plane to Detroit for the Sweet 16, and Flight Radar shows a plane from GEG to DTW landed at 7:25 p.m., around the time this photo was posted.”

“This is a wild tweet,” White added, before adding more evidence.

Hoekstra, who was accused of using racism and xenophobia to win his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat (he lost), did not respond directly to Maddock but did repost the apparently false claim.

Michigan State Senate Democratic Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow denounced Maddock’s claim as “dangerous.”

Maddock’s remark also made the national stage when U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell responded.

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“Hey Einstein,” the California Democrat wrote, “your state is hosting the Sweet 16. Could it be a team bus? If it is, will you resign for your spectacular stupidity?”

In 2021 The Washington Post reported, “Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock and his wife, Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock, have repeatedly been called out by fact-checking journalists for promoting baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and falsely suggesting that covid-19 is comparable to the flu.”

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