Republicans used a congressional hearing on the rising white supremacist threat to America to defend Trump and falsely claim that he didn’t praise Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville in 2017.
Instead of bringing serious witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Republicans invited Mort Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America. Klein calls Arabs “filthy,” and his organization has welcomed white supremacist guests like Trump acolyte Steve Bannon to its events.
At the hearing, Klein was part of an exchange with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) in which he denied Trump’s infamous statement about the Charlottesville riot, describing neo-Nazis as “very fine people.”
View the complete April 9 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.