Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher knocked Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) Holocaust comparison to “bolster” the Democratic Party’s “agenda.”
The U.S. Holocaust Museum issued a statement on Monday denouncing Walz’s comparison of Holocaust victim Anne Frank to immigrants in Minnesota, saying “false equivalencies” such as this are “never acceptable.”
Doescher questioned whether Walz may be “sowing more distrust” as President Donald Trump seeks a “happy medium” to the controversies in Minnesota.
“So you have a bunch of Democrats saying, ‘Republicans, can’t you see that [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] has gone too far?’ Again, ICE didn’t do this shooting; it was Border Patrol, and you have squishy Republicans — look, I’m a squish sometimes, I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, let’s do it like the nice way,’” Doescher said.
“But like, how does this engender any faith that this is an honest compromise, that if Trump says, ‘OK, alright, we’ll dial back the raids, just give us the criminals in the jails.’ How on Earth can you trust that, when you have Walz saying that ICE and Border Patrol are made [up] of Nazis?” Doescher said Monday on Newsmax TV’s The Right Squad.
Doescher added that the word of the day “has to be trust,” and said the Democratic Party is doing “nothing” to give her any trust. She also cited polling data showing that congressional Republicans have an 11% margin over Democrats in recipient trust on immigration.
Tim Doescher, the executive director of the Unleash Prosperity newsletter and Doescher’s husband, said that Democrats’ response to the latest shooting is another instance that the party will “squander” any opportunity for unity. He contended lawmakers such as Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will “go to their first instincts,” which he claims is “division.”
WALZ INSISTS TRUMP HAS ‘FACTS WRONG’ ABOUT MINNESOTA AFTER ‘VERY GOOD CALL’
Trump said Monday he and Walz discussed a possible off-ramp for ICE operations in Minnesota over the phone. The president said that crime in Minnesota had been steadily dropping even before he surged ICE officers to the state late last year, but “both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!”
Border czar Tom Homan is set to meet with Frey after a “very good” call the mayor had with Trump. Frey said some federal agents will begin leaving the city on Tuesday, and that he will push for the rest to leave soon.