Tom Tancredo Tells Trump To Tone It Down A Bit On The Immigration Stuff

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo considers polling results before conceding defeat for his party's nomination at a gathering to watch primary election results with his supporters in the west Denver sub... Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo considers polling results before conceding defeat for his party's nomination at a gathering to watch primary election results with his supporters in the west Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colo., on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Former U.S. congressman Bob Beauprez defeated Tancredo and two other hopefuls to earn the nomination to face incumbent Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper in the November general election. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) MORE LESS
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One of the nation’s most prominent immigration hardliners said on Sunday that Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump needs to develop some tact when peddling his harsh anti-immigrant beliefs.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) told the Denver Post that the real estate mogul “needs to be a little bit more artful” when talking about his views on immigration.

Tancredo, who ran for president in 2008, said he would offer Trump the wisdom of his years fighting the immigration wars — for a price.

“He should take lessons from me on how to talk to the press. For a small fee — no, actually for a very large fee — I will help him out. You’ve got to learn how to talk about it, which takes years of practice, which God knows I’ve had,” Tancredo told the Post.

Tancredo has had an extreme obsession with immigration and border issues. Some highlights include his claim that then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the “Latino KKK” for her membership with National Council of La Raza and that Miami was becoming “a Third World country.”

Trump originally came under harsh criticism for his comments about Mexican immigrants during presidential announcement speech last month.

“They’re sending people that have lots of problems,” Trump said. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

As a result, NBC, Univision, Macy’s, NASCAR and others either dropped Trump-branded merchandise or severed their relationships with him.

This post has been updated.

h/t Huffington Post

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  1. Translation: Be racist! Just not obviously racist!

  2. And yet…where is it to that our criminals always try to flee?

  3. My lands, I’m lovin this shit.

  4. LOL

    When Tancredo is telling you to tone it down… yikes!

  5. When Tom Tancredo tells you to tone it down, you know you’ve got a problem with being a racist.

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