Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Saturday said Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE has “pulled the sheets off” the the Republican Party, revealing the GOP's hatred of minorities and women, according to Politico New York.

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Rangel, who is retiring at the end of his term, said during a rally hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton that the GOP has evolved into a hateful party.

"Let's find out who are these Republicans,” Rangel said. “First, we know they are the wealthiest white people in the world. Then they’re joined by Dixiecrats who hate black folks and leave their party. Then, if they’re frustrated because they don’t think they’re getting a fair shake, and they hate immigrants and minorities, they join the party.

"Then, they don’t like women, they join the party. We start taking a look and see who these people are, the Republicans [tried to be] quiet about that and they just say ‘God Bless America.’ ”

But, Rangel said, Trump "has pulled the sheets off of all of them" and exposed the truth behind Republicans.

“And they are running away from all of the principles of the Republican Party," he continued. "Don’t let them take Donald Trump away from us. He hates all parts of America, which includes Puerto Rico. And if we can’t beat him, we shouldn’t have a Democratic president of these United States."

Rangel also described how the modern Republican Party came to be, saying that it was full of “crackers” and “Dixie people” following the civil rights movement.

"All of a sudden, heirs of slaves are looking at the Democratic Party, and they moved over to the Democratic Party," he said. "But when they moved to the Democratic Party, they had to get in bed with these crackers, Dixie-people, part of the slaveholders — that was a bad mix.

"And then along comes Dr. Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson, and the children of slaves get the right to vote. And the crackers look and see they can’t possibly win and they run and they join the Republican Party. Now you think we have problems."