Tuberville says Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood’ comments weren’t tough enough

Tuberville says Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood’ comments weren’t tough enough

Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s remarks about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” weren’t tough enough.

Comments Trump made during a rally last week in New Hampshire were widely criticized, drawing comparisons to Nazi rhetoric.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said during the rally. “They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world not just in South America, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia…”

Trump had used similar language in an interview with The National Pulse, a right-leaning website, according to Reuters.

“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said, according to Forbes.

But Tuberville wishes Trump would have gone further in his remarks, according to Washington, D.C. reporter Andrew Desiderio.

“I’m mad he wasn’t tougher than that,” Tuberville said when asked about Trump’s comments. “Because have you seen what’s happening at the border? We’re being overrun. They’re taking us over. So a little bit disappointed it wasn’t tougher.”