Beto O’Rourke in an interview with MSNBC said that President Trump is a “white supremacist” and that the United States “has been racist since it’s been a country.”

“What happened in El Paso is not an isolated incident,” Beto O’Rourke told MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff.

“After the president warned of caravans, you had somebody go into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh warning of caravans. You had the mosque in Victoria, Texas, burned to the ground on the day President Trump signed his executive order to ban Muslim travel to the United States. So there are very real consequences to his words, to the tweets, to the racism that he fans.”

“He’s not the source of racism in this country. This country has been racist as long as it’s been a country, but he is certainly fanning the flames, he is certainly making violence like this more possible and more real,” continued O’Rourke.

When MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff asked if “the president was a white supremacist?”, Beto O’Rourke responded “He is…He’s also made that very clear. He’s dehumanized or has sought to dehumanize those who don’t look like or pray like the majority here in this country.”

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