Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Sunday said that Republican members of Congress should have put more pressure on House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) to step down following reports that he spoke at an event for a white nationalist group in 2002.
“If the Republican Party want to send a message out there, and I don’t know whether it’s fair to Congressman Scalise or not fair to him, whatever, but associating with David Duke is grossly unwise,” she said during a roundtable discussion on ABC’s “This Week.”
“If you want to send a messages to the American people, Republicans and Democrats, this would have been the opportunity to say he should step aside, whether it’s fair or not, and send a message that we’re not going to have this distraction,” Van Susteren continued.
Scalise apologized for the speech and called it a “mistake I regret,” but he has not announced plans to resign from Congress or step down from his leadership position.
“The moral courage would be to step down because it sends a very bad message to the American people,” Van Susteren said on Sunday.
