Dem Rep Tells Skeptical Jake Tapper Trump Has Plans To Build ‘Internment Camps’ and She May End Up a Prisoner
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) insisted to CNN’s Jake Tapper that former President Donald Trump has plans to build “internment camps” and she may end up a prisoner in one of them.
Dingell made her claim on CNN’s The Lead during a discussion on Arab American voters in Michigan protesting the Democratic ticket and potentially supporting Trump.
“[Trump] wants to deport Muslims, and he wants to start internment camps, and that‘s what we are busy talking to every voter. He’s telling you what he’s going to do. Believe him,” Dingell said.
“Internment camps?” an unconvinced Tapper asked.
“Yes, he has talked internment camps. You know what, Jake, you may have to visit me in one,” Dingell said. “I get worried enough when he talks about what he’s going to do to his political enemies, but he has talked about them in this with different groups of people.”
Tapper continued to press for what exactly Dingell meant by “internment camps” and how it related to Arab American voters in Michigan.
“Well, I’ve heard him talking about rounding up undocumented migrants and, obviously, for that, you would need some sort of camp. But what do you mean internment camps for Muslims and Arabs?” The CNN anchor asked.
Dingell claimed Trump has been “very clear” about internment camps in speeches to multiple audiences, but she admitted she did not have the “citation.”
The congresswoman told Tapper she’d find proof of what she was saying later and moved on to accusing Trump of “dividing” the country.
“He’s done a great job of continuing to divide us, and I don’t want to see — we are the United States of America, not the divided garbage country,” she said. “I’m proud to be an American; he needs to remember that he should be.”
Watch above via CNN.