Back in November 2018, the Weekly Standard reported that while speaking with potential voters at a restaurant at a campaign stop, Steve King compared immigrants to dirt. He was talking about how some local jalapenos were grown in Mexican dirt, to which the conversation turned from literal dirt to how there's metaphorically a lot of dirt on the way to America from Mexico. They released the tape and it said exactly what they had claimed and showed King clearly calling immigrants and asylum seekers dirt. So when he tries to play the same gambit again with the New York Times, I don't feel like I have much interest in giving him the benefit of the doubt.