"Last night, prominent Republican Congressman Steve King went on national news and said that white people have contributed more to civilization than any other race," Clinton deputy communications director Christina Reynolds said. | AP Photo Clinton fundraising email rips Steve King: 'This is literally white supremacy'

Hillary Clinton's campaign wants to make sure that recent inflammatory comments made by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) do not go unnoticed by the presumptive Democratic nominee's supporters.

"Last night, prominent Republican Congressman Steve King went on national news and said that white people have contributed more to civilization than any other race," Clinton deputy communications director Christina Reynolds wrote in the fundraising appeal with the subject line "This is literally white supremacy." "King’s comments were widely reported as a textbook example of white supremacy, and it wasn't the first time the Party of Trump has had a disturbing connection to white supremacy in recent months."


The email goes on to note KKK leader David Duke's endorsement of Trump and the Republican's reluctance to disavow the support, blaming, at one point, a faulty CNN earpiece. The campaign email also made mention of the tweet featuring Clinton's face on top of a background of money and the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever" within a six-pointed star that the Trump campaign said was neither a Star of David nor anti-Semitic despite having deleted the tweet. (Trump later suggested he would have preferred it stayed.)

"We're taking this seriously. Our country was founded on the idea that we are all created equal, no matter the color of our skin, the faith we practice, or who we love," Reynolds wrote. "We’re going to keep calling Trump out on the deplorable ideas he perpetuates, and we’re going to keep fighting to win the White House this November — not just by a few votes, but by an overwhelming majority — to show Trump, white supremacists, and the world in no uncertain terms that here in America, we don’t stand for hatred."

During a discussion on MSNBC on Monday, the Iowa Republican responded to Esquire's Charlie Pierce who remarked that the vast majority of prominent speakers at the Republican National Committee are predominantly white people."

"This whole business does get a little tired, Charlie. I would ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people you are talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?" King asked.

Co-host Chris Hayes asked, "Than white people?"

"Than Western civilization itself. That's rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint Christianity settled the world," King said, preceding considerable crosstalk. "That's all of Western civilization."