Tag: Steve King

GOP lawmakers say they don’t want to put Steve King back on committees

The Hill logoTop Republicans are pushing back at the idea of putting Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) back on committees he was removed from last year following his controversial comments about white supremacy and Western civilization. 

“It’s bullshit. We have not discussed this at steering,” one member of the Steering Committee, which with GOP leadership decides committee assignments, told The Hill.

King — who is facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) — said he and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached a deal in which McCarthy will advocate that King take his place back on the committees. Continue reading.

Racist Rep. Steve King Creepily Downplays Rape, Incest In Anti-Abortion Remarks

The Iowa congressman was defending not allowing exceptions for rape and incest in anti-abortion legislation he tried to pass in Congress.

Racist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said generations of people would not be here without rape and incest while making the case for anti-abortion legislation without exceptions for victims of those crimes.

Speaking to members at the Westside Conservative Club on Wednesday, King argued that humanity would not have the population it does today if not for rape and incest, the Des Moines Register reported.

“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest?” King said. “Would there be any population of the world left if we did that? Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.”

View the complete August 14 article by Sebastian Murdock on the Politico website here.

Steve King denounces hatred two days after posting Facebook meme threatening Democrats

The congressman has also pushed certain conspiracies promoted in the alleged Christchurch shooter’s manifesto.

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) tweeted Monday about the importance of denouncing hatred “in all its forms,” two days after posting a meme threatening Democrats with “8 trillion bullets.”

“Nigerian militants kill 120 Christians in horrific, sickening and utterly repulsive acts of mass murder and terrorism,” King tweeted. “Terrorism knows no boundaries. Our hearts and prayers go out to all in #Nigeria.”

“We stand against hatred in all its forms,” he added.

View the complete March 18 article by Luke Barnes on the ThinkProgress website here.

Rep. Steve King posts meme bragging red states have ‘8 trillion bullets’

Post theorizing a hypothetical civil war comes at a time when leaders have called for more thoughtfulness

Rep. Steve King posted a meme Saturday about a hypothetical civil war between “blue states” fighting over which bathroom to use and “red states” with trillions of bullets.

The post is an image of two figures composed of traditionally Democratic-leaning and Republican-leaning states in fighting postures with text superimposed over top. The caption reads: “Folks keep talking about another civil war. One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.”

“Wonder who would win?” the Iowa Republican wrote on Facebook.

View the complete March 18 post by Emily Koop on The Roll Call website here.

Steve King and Donald Trump: mutual fans and echoes

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called King’s behavior “abhorrent.” But Trump and King have a long history together. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

“I am just a big fan in what he stands for.”

— Donald Trump, joint interview with Rep. Steve King on Iowa’s “Mickelson in the Morning,” Oct. 14, 2014

In the New York Times interview that caused a firestorm, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says he once told President Trump: “I market-tested your immigration policy for 14 years.”

After all, King was advocating for a border wall — a “King wall” as he called it — as early as 2006, almost 10 years before the concept of a wall along the southern border turned up in Trump’s announcement that he was running for president.

View the complete January 17 article by Glen Kessler and Meg Kelly on The Washington Post website here.

Rep. Steve King: ‘Diversity is not our strength’

The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen was posted on the Hill website December 8, 2017:

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said that diversity is no America’s strength in a pair of tweets Friday.

King linked to an article by the Voice of Europe Friday that quoted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban saying that cultures shouldn’t be mixed, arguing that it’s “against common sense.”

King tweeted the story with the message, “Diversity is not our strength.”

“Assimilation has become a dirty word to the multiculturalist Left. Assimilation, not diversity, is our American strength,” he tweeted. Continue reading “Rep. Steve King: ‘Diversity is not our strength’”