GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Deletes Post Calling Haitian Migrants “Thugs”

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today Republican Congressman Clay Higgins amplified the recent hateful campaign against Haitian immigrants, posting on social media that they are “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who needed to get “their a** out of our country.” Higgins has since deleted the post and he told CNN he did not regret his comments. The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford, joins 360° to discuss the efforts to censure Higgins over the post. Horsford is also calling on the House Committee on Ethics to investigate Higgins’ actions. Plus, the latest on Hurricane Helene and the final preparations under way along Florida’s Big Bend, before it makes landfall as potentially one of the largest storms in a century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, it started with the former president, but now the ugliness is coming from inside the house.
0:06.7	How one congressman amplified hateful campaign against Haitian immigrants, what top Republicans
0:11.6	are saying in his defense defense and what the chair of
0:13.2	the Congressional Black Caucus plans to do about it keeping him honest.
0:16.0	Also tonight the two candidates they're dueling economic messages in the former
0:20.2	president's claims about the two attempts on his life and Iran.
0:24.4	Plus the very latest in Hurricane Helene now forecasts to reach a category 4 heading for the
0:29.4	Florida panhandle.
0:31.0	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
0:32.2	We begin tonight keeping him honestous with politics, specifically the brand of it, which runs on falsehoods
0:36.8	and fear and frankly racism.
0:39.5	The latest example, Louisiana Republican Congressman Clay Higgins, this guy.
0:43.6	Now, he doesn't have much of a record of accomplishment in the House, but today he's certainly
0:47.5	got noticed.
0:48.8	This is what he posted on social media.
0:50.9	Quoting the Congressman now, L-O-L-L-L, these Haitians are wild, eating pets, voodoo, nastiest country in the Western
0:57.3	hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters, but damned if they don't feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our president and
1:06.0	VP.
1:07.0	All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.
1:13.0	So a couple things to unpack here.
1:14.2	Voodoo, by the way, is a streaming service that's owned by Fandango.
1:18.0	He obviously meant the religion, Voodoo, but just knows nothing about it.
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