‘White Supremacy In Blackface!’ Sen. Warnock Rips Trump And Mark Robinson To MSNBC’s Psaki
Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) tore into former President Donald Trump and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) when MSNBC’s Jen Psaki asked about shocking revelations that Robinson is facing.
Robinson — whom Trump has called “Martin Luther King on steroids” — is embroiled in a scandal that includes revelations he declared himself a “Black NAZI!” and “expressed support for reinstating slavery” along with sexual views that don’t align with his campaign rhetoric.
On Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki, the host asked Warnock — the pastor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist Church — about the scandal:
PSAKI: I want to ask you about something else that may sound familiar to you which is Trump aligning himself with a person who should have been disqualified from running for office and that is — you know who I’m going to ask you about, Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina, and especially the ways given your background and your history and your current role as a religious leader in which Dr. Martin Luther King’s name has come up in this — in this whole scandal.
I mean, in addition to everything else, CNN found that Robinson made a series of posts denigrating Dr. King, calling him a commie bastard, calling him an offensive slur. As you well know, Donald Trump once referred to Robinson as Martin Luther King on steroids.
You will actually stand today at the same pulpit where Martin Luther King preached, you have a long history in the state of Georgia. I just want to know what you make of all of this and how they’re talking about his legacy.
WARNOCK: I can tell you as the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr. served, that Mark Robinson is no Martin Luther King Jr. He is the antithesis of everything that Dr. King represented.
He is white supremacy in blackface, as he talks about his desire to bring slavery back. I mean, this — this talk is way beyond the pale. Calling himself a black Nazi — these are his words.
And I think that the people of North Carolina need to take note of the fact that this is Donald Trump’s candidate. This is who he keeps pushing and encouraging. This is who they — he thinks should represent them.
But Donald Trump has a long history of this. He tried this in my race.
PSAKI: Uh-huh.
WARNOCK: This is not the first time he has put forward a Black candidate who is unfit and unqualified to serve with this cynical notion that somehow the electorate will be confused about who this person represents.
The people of North Carolina deserve better. They’ve got real issues that they’re trying to address and they’re going to see through Mark Robinson just in the same way that the people of Georgia saw through my opponent.
Watch above via MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki.
