Steve King's modern-day civil war meme is 'treason,' says ex-White House ethics lawyer RWPUSA
Republican Congressman Steve King has come under fire again for racially charged remarks, this time after posting a meme on Facebook suggesting that red states would win if pitted against blue ones in a modern-day civil war. The post prompted a former White House ethics chief to call for the Iowa congressman's expulsion from Congress.
The meme showed blue and red states grouped separately to form what looks like two people fighting one another, accompanied by the words:"Folks keep talking about another civil war... One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use."King has since deleted the post, denouncing “hatred in all its forms” in a Monday morning tweet.
Representative Steve King testifies during a House Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on September 26, 2017. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democrats have been criticized by Republicans for not removing Ilhan Omar from her Foreign Affairs Committee seat after the Muslim congresswoman allegedly referenced anti-Semitic tropes. But party leaders argued that the GOP has long tolerated King's racist remarks.
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