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17 Jan 2019
Steve King compared immigrants to dirt during a campaign stop in November 2018.

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.

17 Jan 2019
The New York Times fabricates quotes by removing context to falsely label Steve King as a white supremacist.

The New York Times is a criminal group. They've done this to me and everyone else. They are a lie factory. They remove the word there out of the quote. Now they're removing it and cutting it even down more to one word and two words. Peter King said, quotes around it, white supremacist. Quotes around it, white nationalist. So now they're even cutting it down to two words, not wanting you to have the context of anything. That is pure evil. But the Republican leadership, they want to virtue signal.