Chuck Schumer Excoriates ‘Vicious, Nasty, And Anti-Semitic’ Remark From Republican Senator

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pulled no punches on Friday in slamming Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) for recently calling him “Führer Schumer.”

While wrapping an appearance on CNN with anchor Dana Bash, Schumer was asked to react to the Ohio Republican’s comments.

“I do, before I let you go, want to ask about a report in the Columbus Dispatch that says Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno told people that Democrats are, quote, ‘Monolithic sheep that follow the Führer Schumer’s orders.’ What’s your reaction to being called a ‘Führer’ by a fellow senator?” Bash asked the top Democrat.

“This is vicious, nasty, and anti-Semitic, plain and simple,” Schumer replied, adding:

You know, I’m the highest Jewish-ranking official in America, and I lost people, lots of people, to the Holocaust, to this vicious man, Hitler, who killed 6 million Jews. It is outrageous what he did. It is anti-semitic what he did. He ought to renounce his own comments, but where are the Republicans denouncing this vicious anti-Semitism? It is so brutal, especially to those of us who’ve lost someone, and many in my family, to that horrible man, Hitler.

The original report on Moreno’s comments read, “Moreno, who was elected in November, made the comment to reporters outside the Senate chamber as members of his caucus struggled to agree on a path forward to try to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut agenda.”

“Here’s the main thing you’ve got to understand. Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders,” Moreno was then quoted as saying.

Watch the clip above via CNN.