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O'ROURKE: "I don’t know the point that you’re trying to make here, Jake, but it is pretty obvious to me and anyone who's listened to the President and will look at the facts that his anti-immigrant rhetoric, not just the things that I cited, but calling asylum-seekers animal or an infestation, now, you might describe a cockroach or termites as an infestation, something less than human, you might hear someone in the Third Reich describe a given people, based on their characteristic, as an infestation or subhuman, but that is what the President of the United States is doing right now. And it is not just with Mexican immigrants conflating Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with the terrorists from 9/11, encouraging that chanting in North Carolina of 'Send her back.' Let’s not mince words right now. This president is encouraging greater racism. And not just the racist rhetoric, but the violence that so often follows. This shooter in the manifesto cites in part for his inspiration the shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, who cites Donald Trump as his inspiration. This anti-immigrant rhetoric, and again, it is not just President Trump, but he’s certainly as the person in the position of greatest public trust in power most responsible for it. This is Fox News, this is what we’re seeing on the Internet, this is the toleration of intolerance and hatred and racism in this country. This is what is causing what we’re seeing here today and it will continue to happen unless we call it out and unless we change it."