Tuesday on CNN’s “At This Hour,” while discussing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s comments describing half of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s supporters as “deplorables” driven by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” beliefs, Congressional Black Caucus chairman Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said Trump was deplorable, so “it’s only is rational to believe that deplorables are attracted to deplorables.”
Meeks said, “What common sense tells you because Donald Trump himself, from what was indicated on those commercials and what you heard from his mouth all along, he is deplorable and a deplorable individual, it’s only reasonable to believe, will attract other deplorable people. When you think about Donald Trump, for example what he said to Megyn Kelly, bleeding out of her—that’s deplorable. When you think about what he said about the Mexican-American judge who said he couldn’t do his job simply because he was Mexican, that’s deplorable. When you think about the fact he said he was going to pay the legal fees of one of his supporters to attack someone at his rally, that’s deplorable. I could go on and on about the things Donald Trump has said or done is deplorable. So that indicates that Donald Trump himself is deplorable and it’s only is rational to believe that deplorables are attracted to deplorables.”
(h/t RCP Video)
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