Republican Strategist David Urban vehemently pushed back on linking former President Donald Trump‘s recent attacks against migrants to the rhetoric used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
During an appearance on CNN Monday evening, Urban, who worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign, reacted alongside Democratic strategist Aisha Mills to the former president’s comments on a conservative radio show earlier in the day, during which the Republican presidential nominee said that there are “a lot of bad genes” among migrants living in America.
Mills, an LGBTQ+ activist who has worked on dozens of Congressional campaigns, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that Trump’s comments “reek of authoritarianism, and it also harkens back to a time of Hitler.”
“All of this smells like an affinity toward eugenic, which really should give us all pause,” Mills added. “Because when we remember the last person, the last awful authoritarian dictator who believed in eugenics, it was someone who really wanted to exterminate an entire people because they thought that they didn’t have ‘good genes.'”
Urban shook his head through Mills’ answer, and said after she had finished, “You should be ashamed of yourself.”
“Aisha, for you to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on 10/7 is just shameful,” Urban continued, referring to the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Urban said that Trump’s comments were in reference to migrants who have murdered Americans and the “scientific studies” about whether murderers “have some sort of genetic predisposition to murder people.”
“No eugenics, not of some made-up BS, Aisha,” Urban said. “So, listen, I’m sorry that Donald Trump feels like standing up for people who may have been murdered by immigrants and want to deport illegal immigrants…but that’s okay in my case.”
Trump made the controversial statement during an appearance on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show Monday morning, during which he again attacked Vice President Kamala Harris for “allowing people to come through an open border.” He also repeated claims that there are “13,000” convicted murderers who have entered the country illegally under the Biden-Harris administration.
“Now, a murderer, I believe this; it’s in their genes,” Trump continued. “And we’ve got a lot of bad genes in this country right now.”
This is a developing story that will be updated as information becomes available.
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, participates in a town hall at the Crown Center Arena on October 4, 2024, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. GOP Strategist David Urban adamantly pushed back on comparing Trump’s recent comments about migrants to rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler.
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