Donald Trump Jr. compared Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro releasing a list of President Trump’s donors to the Dayton, Ohio, shooter having created a rape and kill list when he was in high school.
Castro posted a list of names and professions of 44 San Antonio residents who donated the maximum amount to President Trump’s reelection campaign on Tuesday afternoon. A number of people, including GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, called out Castro for “targeting” the president’s supporters.
Trump Jr. alleged on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning that Castro, the brother of presidential candidate Julian Castro, was no different that the man who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend who had his own list. The shooter kept a list of students he wanted to kill and rape back when he was in high school.
“What’s going on with the Joaquin Castro craziness,” Trump Jr. stated. “Putting out a list. That list screams like the Dayton, Ohio, shooter’s list, right? When a radical left-wing politician who’s polling at about 0% does this for either attention or a call to action, it is pretty scary. That was the same thing that the Dayton, Ohio, shooter did. People should be fed up with this nonsense.”
Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt did point out that there was no call to action associated with Castro’s tweet.
Trump Jr. countered, “Perhaps not to reasonable people, but when the fringe crazies on both sides, we saw that in the last week, right? You have fringe crazies on all sides. They see that. Now you’re going after ordinary citizens. People who taking part in the political process. Honestly, imagine I did that. Imagine I put a list of Joaquin Castro’s donors?”
