'It's All True': GOP Rep Doubles Down After Wildly Racist Tweet Sparks Huge Backlash

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Source: huff Post



Clay Higgins of Louisiana supposedly "prayed" about the incident before standing by his astonishing tirade.

By Josephine Harvey Sep 26, 2024, 07:36 AM EDT




Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) defended his deeply racist comments about Haitian people even though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) claimed the lawmaker had prayed about the post and regretted it.

“It’s all true,” Higgins told CNN Wednesday, even though he ultimately deleted the widely condemned tweet. “I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want.”


“It’s not a big deal to me. It’s like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life,” he added.

Earlier Wednesday, the lawmaker had expanded on the racist lies pushed by Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, posting on X (formerly Twitter) that Haitians are “eating pets” and come from the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere.” ............................

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clay-higgins-racist-tweet-backlash_n_66f52ad5e4b0b663235f52a3

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No, Mr. Higgins--you are a member of the House--you can not say what you want!!
You are suppose to be a role model. But you missed that lesson for all the world to see.



..........“It’s all true,” Higgins told CNN Wednesday, even though he ultimately deleted the widely condemned tweet. “I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want.”................

[Marthe48]

1. rwnj

Their elected officials have stopped doing things for people, now just doing things to people. Bad things, cruel things.

[dchill]

2. I'm thinking of the majority in his district...

...who will evidently continue to vote to return him to the House. THEY are like something stuck to the bottom of our nation's boot.

[rurallib]

11. and he is their role model

[agingdem]

28. Trump is their role model...he's a loud and proud racist..

in 2016 Trump brought his overt hate for "the other" into the While House (shit hole countries/good people on both sides/look at my African American/Coco Chao/Pocahontas ), freeing his fellow monsters to showcase their mutual hate on social media and in the halls of Congress...and yes, Higgins has the right to spew venomous filth but we have the right to trash him, confront him, and not move on...

[ShazzieB]

29. Exactly.

Higgins has the right to spew venomous filth but we have a right to trash him, confront him, and not move on...

Dude has the right to say whatever he wants....and the rest of us have the right to react to it as we see fit. (Funny how sewage skewers like him don't seem to grasp that last part.)

[The Grand Illuminist]

39. That there is the enemy that needs to be compromised.

Every last one of them.

[brush]

3. The House should censure this racist MFer as a warining that if...

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he does it again, expulsion will follow.

Freedom of speech has boundries in civilized societies. And he has the nerve to call say the Haitians are trying to be sophisticated...well, his racist ass is anything but with his classless spewing.

[flying_wahini]

15. Never happen cuz the GOP loves these idiots. I mean, look at trump.

[brush]

25. We'll see what happens if Rep. Jeffries becomes Speaker.

There's a good chance that can happen.

[onandup]

4. Hopefully more will remove the hood

Be seen fully for what they are.

[Wonder Why]

16. And find out if he's a one cylinder engine or a white sheet. 😁

[Magoo48]

33. Yes, not only are the racists forever unmasked, but we also see who agrees with this shit by their lack of response.

[mwb970]

5. I'm so glad that he "prayed" about it.

At least he took action.

[yardwork]

6. "I'll say what I want." What, is he twelve?

[William Seger]

7. "We believe in redemption around here"

"I’m sure he probably regrets some of the language he used. But you know, we move forward. We believe in redemption around here," he [Mike Johnson] added.

This is the dogmatic, built-in hypocrisy of phony Christian evangelicals: Higgens claims to be a Christian, so he gets to pray away any offenses, and other phony Christians are obliged to forgive him, since presumably their God will. They believe that everyone is a sinner, but you only go to hell if you don't claim Jesus to be your personal savior, but if you just do that, you can be forgiven for anything.

[robbob]

23. What redemption???

FFS; he just doubled down on his racist bile. He said he’ll do it again, freedom of speech, etc. etc. Mike Johnson is a pathetic hypocrite.

[Grins]

36. "Mr. Speaker? A Mr. Hunter Biden on line 2..."

[LeftinOH]

8. There are white trash idiots in Congress because

white trash idiots vote for them.

[The Grand Illuminist]

40. And white trash idiots are the main problem.

They need to be dealt with accordingly.

[ThreeNoSeep]

9. Odd how the MAGA cognitive handicap manifests

We've seen this before in folks who live on the margins of understanding, this idea that freedom of speech means freedom from facing the consequences of our words or the judgment of our community for how we express those words. There's a broader spectrum of disorders with the Trump Cult, but this is a big one.

[Skittles]

37. it's bizarre

they absolutely do NOT understand the concept of free speech, not at ALL

[mdbl]

10. From the "Keep repeating a lie until people think it's true" department

and of course the media blares the bullshit everywhere.

[wolfie001]

12. The 6 creeps on the SC.....

.....think this expression by public officials covering themselves in their hate religion is just A-okay. Stupid, short-sighted mother-fuckers. All 6 of them AND their spouses. So that's 12 creeps in total.

[ananda]

13. He was actually KKK and still is at heart.

I think he voted for David Duke at one time.

I remember protesting David Duke when he was
speaking in League City in 1992.

My sign: Hitler 1932, Duke 1992

[azureblue]

14. and there you have it

he is saying it is OK for him to lie. And we should shut up and let him lie.

[Marcuse]

17. Lying is their first language.

[KS Toronado]

18. Meanwhile we'll say what we want about you.

Hoping it'll hurt your reelection.

[Botany]

19. And this is why "they" have to suppress the black vote.

I wonder if Higgins knows if the historical Jesus of the Bible was a black man who
looked like the current Somalis we have in Columbus, Ohio?

[Mblaze]

20. Higgins is stuck to America's boot. Let's scrape him off.

He's what happens when somebody is not raised right.

[NoMoreRepugs]

21. Translation- I can do whatever I want - I'm a Republican.

[EarnestPutz]

22. Is this the idiot who showed up for freshman orientation....

..... while back wearing a shoulder holster and firearm to the house?

[lonely bird]

24. Oh, he prayed about it

Well, then that makes it OK.

Where the hell is my sarcasm button?

[Grokenstein]

26. Edgy boi! Edgy boi! Edgy edgy edgy!!

You're not in high school. You're supposed to be a grown-up. Act like one, maybe?

[FakeNoose]

27. THIS is what Xwitter has created - the media MUST STOP spotlighting this cesspool

Whatever garbage-shit is on Xwitter must STAY on Xwitter. Nobody else needs to hear about it.
It's garbage and they have no "journalistic" rules.

When a journalist publishes a story, it must be confirmed by at least 2 sources.
If it's unconfirmed, then it's not a "story" - it's an opinion.

CNN can't keep doing this. If they continue then they're as bad as Faux Noise, simple as that.

[MagickMuffin]

30. Clay Higgins voted for David Duke Grand Wizard of the KKK

Of course Clay Higgins is a racist, would love to see his hood and I don’t mean neighborhood.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. Republican congressman's racist rant generates immediate backlash

Rep. Clay Higgins' racist online message probably won't help the Republican Party's pre-election outreach to Black voters.

Link to tweet

I don’t know whether Republicans will make gains with Black voters in the 2024 elections, but it looks like the GOP is asking Black voters to overlook an astonishing amount of recent, overt Republican racism.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-congressmans-racist-rant-generates-immediate-backlash-rcna172830

As my MSNBC colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim explained, a national non-profit organization called the Haitian Bridge Alliance announced this week that it’s seeking criminal charges against the former president and the Ohio senator, accusing the Republicans of making false alarms, aggravated menacing and telecommunications harassment.

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins saw the news and responded in an overtly racist way. NBC News reported:

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., called Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere” in a post on social media Wednesday, saying migrants from the Caribbean country, the majority of whom are in the U.S. legally, should “get their ass out of our country.”

Even by contemporary standards, the GOP congressman’s rant was unusually ugly. “These Haitians are wild,” Higgins wrote in the since-deleted tweet. “Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters... but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.”.....

For those unfamiliar with the far-right congressman Higgins, in his capacity as a local sheriff, appeared in a video in 2016 in which he described several Black criminal suspects as “animals” and “heathens,” adding, “You will be hunted, you will be trapped, and if you raise a weapon to a man like me, we’ll return fire with superior fire.”

After the video surfaced, Higgins resigned — which cleared the way for his election to Congress, where he’s best known for concocting deeply weird conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack. This, of course, didn’t stop GOP leaders from assigning him to a task force investigating the Trump rally shooting......

A couple of years ago, Republican officials expressed some confidence that the party’s strategic outreach to Black voters was starting to pay off. The Hill reported that the GOP believed its messaging was starting to “resonate with the crucial voting bloc.” The New York Times reported soon after that Republicans saw “a fresh opening” to “peel away some Black voters.”

I don’t know whether Republicans will make gains with Black voters in the 2024 elections, but I do know that the GOP is asking Black voters to overlook an astonishing amount of recent, overt Republican racism.

[IronLionZion]

32. It's the only way these idiots get attention from headlines

They say and post outrageous things just to get media coverage.

[Evolve Dammit]

35. When people tell you who they are, believe them. He's dangerous. That rhetoric from a Sherriff should have gotten his

ass fired on the spot.

[Evolve Dammit]

34. They are insane. And stupid. And we know: You can't fix stupid. Or bat shit crazy. No cure.

[electric_blue68]

38. Yeah, it's All True that You're a Flaming Racist, Clay Higgins.