Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) told radio host Joe Madison early Wednesday that President Donald Trump was seeking to instigate a race war, and also bizarrely suggested the president would use the opportunity to come out as a Ku Klux Klan leader.
Rush, a longtime Chicago resident and member of the House since 1992, made the remarks as part of a lengthy response to Madison about the possibility of Trump sending in federal agents to quell violence in Chicago.
“Any time you send a group of armed bandits, outlaws — no uniform, no name, no insignia, no identification — and you just snatch up innocent people, and you take them off [to] some unrecognized, some unknown place, you are really terrorizing our nation, you’re terrorizing communities,” said Rush.
“For Trump to talk about sending federal agents in Chicago — we won’t stand for it,” he continued. “I think what Trump is really trying to do, my friend, I think that Trump is really trying to instigate a race war. He wants to have a reaction.” – READ MORE
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