GOP Rep. Deletes Shocking Tweet After Being Confronted By Fellow Republican on House Floor

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) deleted a tweet on Wednesday evening that included a shocking attack on Haitians legally in the United States.

Higgins, who is known for his inflammatory rhetoric, took to X on Wednesday and replied to a recent Associated Press headline about Haitian migrants in Ohio with an attack on Haiti as a country and its people.

Higgins shared the headline of the article that read, “Haitian group in Springfield, Ohio, files citizen criminal charges against Trump and Vance,” and added:

Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu [sic], nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP.

All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.

Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba explained that Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) confronted Higgins, quoting the Florida Republican as saying, “He and I had a conversation about it. I told him my thoughts. I thought it was not a good statement. I thought he should take it down.”

Donalds was born and raised in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, which has a large Haitian population and is himself of Jamaican and Panamanian heritage.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) took to the House floor on Wednesday evening and vowed to offer a resolution to censure Higgins over the tweet. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) defended Higgins by noting the tweet had already been deleted.

Higgins’s tweet was meant to be a defense of former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), who have spread the widely debunked smear that Haitian immigrants are eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio. Trump and Vance’s highly-publicized claims have led to fear within the migrant community as schools have been closed and events canceled, citing threats.