Steve King: I’m Not a Racist & Americans Aren’t Having Enough Babies
In his first public appearance in front of constituents since the publication of his remarks defending white supremacy, Rep. Steve King defended himself from accusations that he is the House of Representative’s most high-profile racist, before telling a female constituent that Americans aren’t having enough babies.
Speaking in Primghar, Iowa, the nine-term Republican told constituents in a town hall meeting that it was “stunning and astonishing to me” that his remarks in a New York Times profile—in which King asked: “white nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?”—could “outweigh” nearly two decades in Congress. King declared that he is not a racist, and insisted that the quotation was the result of punctuational prejudice by agenda-driven reporters.
“I’ve made more than one mistake, we all have,” King said. “I should have never done an interview with The New York Times.”