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The internet is disgusted by Mike Huckabee’s newest racist tweet

Huckabee continues his disturbing trend.

 

Josh Katzowitz

IRL

Posted on Jun 23, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 12:47 pm CDT

President Donald Trump continues to pursue the storyline that Central American gang MS-13 is trying to invade the U.S. and that Democrats want to help them by being lax on the border. Even with much of the country enraged by the administration’s policy of separating families that cross the border from Mexico into the U.S., that hasn’t stopped Trump and his surrogates from blaming others for this country’s immigration issues.

That includes former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who tweeted this Saturday.

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1010497564435730434

It’s clearly an attempt to tie Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to Hispanic gang members, and much of the internet was disgusted by the racism of Huckabee’s proclamation.

https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/1010514323444203521

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1010517654845689856

While Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been under immense pressure since she began her role as Trump’s press secretary, Mike Huckabee has become a full-throated supporter of the president.

He’s made a transphobic joke about Sen. Chuck Schumer, joked about North Koreans eating dogs, said he didn’t remember Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” Access Hollywood tape, and declared that Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation was actually in his butt.

And during one Cinco De Mayo, Huckabee tweeted a racist joke, writing, “For Cinco de Mayo I will drink an entire jar of hot salsa and watch old Speedy Gonzales cartoons and speak Spanish all day. Happy CdMayo!”

Earlier this week, it was reported that Huckabee praised Qatar on Twitter and on Fox News but didn’t reveal that he had been paid $50,000 to lobby for the country.

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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the geographical origins of MS-13. An earlier version of this story also misstated Chuck Schumer’s job title. 

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*First Published: Jun 23, 2018, 9:39 am CDT