By BRUCE LOWITT
Republicans in Congress are defending Donald Trump and his speakers who appeared at their controversial Madison Square Garden rally, with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Cancun, proclaiming, “Some of my best friends are spi- … uh, Hispanics.”
The Canadian-born Cruz, a son of twice-divorced Cuban-American evangelist Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Diaz, is among the Trump sycophants trying to deflect the outrage created when insult comedian and D-list celebrity Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage” during his Oct. 27 performance.
Cruz said that in his many visits to five-star resorts in Belize, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Virgin Islands as well as Cancun, “I find hundreds, maybe thousands, of Puerto Ricans working in all those places. At least I think they are. Frankly, I’m not sure I can tell one spi- … Latino from another. But they’re all nice to me and I suppose some of them are from there. And I always tip them well, at least a dollar for fresh towels.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Tantric, said that when she visited New York City last year to support Trump during his hush-money trial, “I saw more garbage in five square blocks of Manhattan than in all of Puerto Rico, so I’d say Mr. Hinchcliffe, as funny as he was, was sort of off the mark.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Groomer, in an address to the student body of Navarre High School in his Florida district of Santa Rosa County, told them, “I know many of you who have come here from Puerto Rico, some better than others and some more than others, and I can say without reservation that you have given me more pleasure than I could have imagined.”
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Kickback, said his primary residence in Naples, Fla., “is probably worth more than that whole freaking island, and a lot cleaner, too, thanks to the Puerto Rican workers from their nation that have immigrated here and care for my mansion and grounds. But a country like that still doesn’t deserve to be called a bad name by a so-called comedian with such a stupid name.”
Trump, in a close presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris, first said in response to the uproar over Hinchcliffe’s remarks, “I don’t know him. Someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is.”
But in a telephone interview Friday, the former president told San Juan radio station WSKN, “With all the trouble he’s causing, I’ll get that m*****f***** deported.”
Told that Hinchcliffe is a U.S. citizen born in Youngstown, Ohio, and can’t be deported, Trump replied, “When I win back the presidency – I’ve got enough well-paid election certifiers in the bag – I’ll make him our ambassador to Puerto Rico. That’ll fix his ass.”
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