Rick Scott panicked when asked about Trump’s social function of racial truth

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) did his best to justify former President Donald Trump’s racist Truth Social post on Friday, as the former commander in chief said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a “death wish” and called his transfer of former Secretary Elaine Chao “Coco” Chow.”

Asked during an appearance on CNN about the position, the senator defended Trump’s penchant for “titles.”

“You know, the president likes to give people nicknames. You can ask him how he came up with the nickname,” Scott told Dana Bash during Sunday state of the union. “I’m sure he has a nickname for me.”

Trump’s post – who attacked McConnell for allowing Democratic bills to pass to vex the former president, and who also accused the minority leader of trying to “take the country down with him” – sparked outrage with his apparent advocacy of violence and his attacks on McConnell’s wife Chau, a Taiwan-born US citizen.

Bash continued to pressure the senator, who holds a leadership position in the Senate as chair of the Republican National Senate Committee, on how Republicans would stand up for a position that seemed blatantly racist.

“It’s never okay to be a racist. I think you always have to be careful if you’re in the public eye about the way you say things. You want to make sure you’re inclusive,” said Scott of Naples, Florida, where he has been overseeing recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian. “You want to be sure—yesterday in the neighborhood I was in, we had people from probably ten countries living there. This is the great thing about this country. I know what I’m trying to do is make everyone — everyone, especially their children, believe they have hope and live the dream of this country. I hope no one is racist. I hope no one says anything inappropriate. I will do everything I can.”

This defense was not enough for a former adviser to McConnell.

“If you read this whole thing out loud, if you were on the street and you heard someone mumble it on a street corner, you wouldn’t say, ‘Okay, let’s hand this person the presidency or the Republican presidential nomination,'” CNN analyst Scott Jennings (and former McConnell adviser) told Bash. You can say ‘Call 911’ because it sounds like a psychotic person is on the loose and out on the street and could be a danger to themselves and others. It’s outrageous, beyond pallor. Every Republican should be able to say that. This is not good for a party. It’s not good for him.”

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