Tucker Carlson's racist attempt to deflect outrage over the Trump-Putin saga

[G_j]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/18/opinions/tucker-carson-mexico-lame-deflect-trump-russia-outrage-reyes/index.html

(CNN) When in doubt, blame brown people. That's what one leading voice on the right is doing in response to the fallout over President Donald Trump's disastrous summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

In an interview with "The Five," Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that Russia had sought to meddle in US affairs. But he asserted that other countries, such as Mexico, have been more successful in doing so. "I don't think Russia is our close friend or anything like that. I think of course they try to interfere in our affairs. They have for a long time. Many countries do. Some more successfully than Russia, like Mexico, which is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate."

Nice try. This is Carlson's attempt to deflect attention from the national outrage over Trump casting doubt on the US intelligence community's determination that Russia meddled in our 2016 election.

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[JCanete]

1. What the fuck is he even talking about. Packing our electorate with US citizens who happen to be of

Mexican descent?

That is a supremely stupid argument from somebody slightly less stupid than that but who knows how ignorant and misinformed his audience is. Pretty gross, but so brazenly dumb that I don't see how he squirms out of that stupidity if challenged directly on it by a hostile guest.