'All you can eat': NY lawmaker slams Trump rally 'buffet of bigotry'
US Rep. Ritchie Torres (R-NY) lambasted Donald Trump over the former president's Sunday, October 27 Madison Square Garden rally, which included a slew of racist comments from guest speakers like comedian Tony Hinchcliff.
Al-Jazeera reported:
Hinchcliffe, whose set was intended to warm up the crowd, veered into what many described as offensive territory, quipping that Latinos 'love making babies', before likening their presence to an 'invasion of the country'.
He then went on to say: 'There’s a lot going on, like, I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.'
Speaking with MSNBC's Nicole Wallace on Monday, Rep. Torres — who is Afro-Latino — did not mince words in response to Hinchcliff's "jokes."
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"Look, Donald Trump's rally was a buffet of bigotry," the New York lawmaker insisted. "If you're a bigot, you had all you can eat. Racism and sexism, antisemitism, nativism. But for me the so-called 'joke' from the so-called 'comedian' was not the disease, it was a symptom. The disease is Donald Trump. There's no one in our politics who's more corrosive and more divisive. And to your point, Donald Trump cannot distance himself from the hatred of those comments because he has spent his whole career stoking the flames of hatred and fear. Donald Trump is not a firefighter. He's an arsonist, who's intent on burning down anything resembling decency and civil discourse in our politics."
Wallace then asked the Democratic congressman, "Whatever happens in a week, how do we move on from what we saw last night?"
Torres replied, "It's hard to know. Donald Trump spoke of liberation. We have to liberate ourselves from Donald Trump because he is a deep rot at the very soul of our country. I mean, that rally was demagogic politics at its most despicable and its most dangerous, and he cannot help but be hateful. You know, expecting Donald Trump to be anything other than hateful is like expecting a circle to have three sides. Hatred is core to who he is — always has been, always will be."
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