Brian Kilmeade Defends Trump’s ‘Poisoning the Blood of Our Country’ Rhetoric: ‘He Just Wants to Keep America, America’
Brian Kilmeade went to bat for former President Donald Trump Monday morning after a political media backlash exploded from “poison America” comments during a weekend speech.
Trump told supporters at a New Hampshire rally on Saturday that immigrants from Africa & Asia are “poisoning the blood of our country.” The Republican frontrunner ranted about the amount of migrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border during the campaign rally. Trump claimed Democrats have let in 15-16 million undocumented immigrants since he left office as well as abandoned his strict immigration policies, including Remain-In-Mexico and construction of the border wall.
The Sunday morning cable news and broadcast talk shows were filled with disbelief and condemnation of the comments because, for many, they closely mirror fascist political rhetoric from the last century. Republican rival Chris Christie called it “disgusting,” and the Biden Campaign flatly asserted that Trump was parroting Hitler.
Kilmeade brought the speech up by first noting how “they didn’t like his rhetoric.”
“He was talking about the border. He was talking about people coming from other countries, coming from prisons. And they wanted to focus on all the Sunday shows, Lawrence, on the word he used ‘poison,'” Kilmeade said to Lawrence Jones.
“He’s just trying to say we want to keep America, America,” he explained. “We want to build up the border and find out who’s coming in and out. And they tried to say that this language was the problem.”
The issue in this defense is how one considers the term “America,” of course. Some may see that comment as the most innocent way to describe a long-gone ideal of the nation. Others have different and less glowing ideas of the nation that was built by immigrants, which stand at the root of the conflict.
“And then you look at what Jen Psaki was saying over the weekend,” Kilmeade continued. “She’s saying the goal now is to make people fearful that Trump could win to see these polls launch and say he could be back. If you don’t vote for you, hold your nose and vote for Joe Biden. He’ll be back. That’s a heck of a strategy!”
The segment concluded with Jones interviewing an 82-year-old Italian-American immigrant at Bay Shore, Long Island bar who came straight out of central casting and offered the precise commentary that Fox & Friends producers were likely looking for.
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