Oh “heil” no.
Leticia Remauro, a Republican from New York’s Staten Island, found herself in hot water last week after she said “Heil Hitler” while protesting the state’s coronavirus lockdown.
The New York Times reported that Remauro is running for borough president and was outside Mac’s Public House, a bar that has also clashed with city and state officials over COVID mandates when she made the comment.
A video showed Remauro outside the bar during a protest on 2 December. She said there was an urgent need to reopen the economy, so they could pay the salaries of the officers who were seen outside the bar. She said the police officers were doing their job, but “not for nothing, sometimes you’re got to say, ‘Heil Hitler,’ not a good idea to send me here, we’re not going to do it.”
She apologized in a statement to the paper and said her comment does not represent “anything I feel or think about the horrors of the holocaust or the enduring trauma impacting survivors and subsequent generations of the vital forever necessity of holocaust education.”
The Times reported Remauro works at a marketing firm that was recently hired by Nicole Malliotakis, New York City’s only Republican, who won in the district in November. Malliotakis separated herself from Remauro in a Twitter post shortly after the controversy.
“At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across our city and especially on Staten Island, there is no excuse for such words being uttered,” she said.
TRENDPOST: In politically correct, censorship America, every word must be spoken as told.
Last week, we reported that Congresswoman Mary Miller issued an apology after a comment she made about Adolf Hitler during a “Save the Republic” rally.
She told the audience it is up to each generation to instill values into the next generation. “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ Our children are being propagandized,” she said.
The backlash was swift, and some have called on her to resign.
Backing down as Remauro did, Miller said, “I sincerely apologize for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth. This dark history should never be repeated.”
Double Standard for a Lemon
CNN’s anti-Trump anchor Don Lemon doubled down on his earlier comment when he referred to Trump supporters as Nazis, while a Republican congresswoman who mentioned the name “Hitler” faced calls for expulsion.
Shortly after the riot at the Capitol, Lemon – once again – unloaded on Trump voters and defended his position that anyone who voted for the president is essentially in league with the KKK and neo-Nazis. Said Lemon:
“If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. You voted for the person who incited a crowd to go into the capital and potentially take the lives of lawmakers.”
The anchor stood by his comment the following night, saying, “They’re allowed to their own opinion and I believe what I said last night.”
TRENDPOST: Welcome to double standard America. It is fine for CNN Lemon Presstitute to moronically and arrogantly calls the 74,223,744 Americans who voted for Donald Trump neo-Nazis and not be called out for it.
But anyone who mentions Hitler, such as Mary Miller and Leticia Remauro, is labeled anti-Israel and “absolutely repugnant, obscene and unacceptable for any American,” as expressed by the quacking Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Miller’s state.