AZ-SEN: Kari Lake didn't dispute a talk show host's false claim her opponent supports veteran suicides
Kari Lake appeared on the show of an Islamaphobic conspiracy theorist who has espoused white nationalist views and offered no pushback when the host claimed her combat veteran opponent in the U.S. Senate race wants his fellow veterans to kill themselves.
Lake appeared on “Loomer Unleashed,” hosted by Laura Loomer on May 21 to discuss her bid for U.S. Senate. In the interview, as the two women discussed the southern border, Loomer claimed that U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, the likely Democratic nominee in this year’s Senate race, was in favor of illegal immigration. That led her to claim Gallego did not care about veteran suicide.
“I think, too, another thing that’s really shameful about Ruben Gallego is he likes to tout, you know, his military service, as if he’s some kind of war hero in our country,” Loomer said about the U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq. She went on to say that, “if Ruben Gallego truly cares about veterans,” then he would “keep illegal aliens out” claiming that money used on immigration should be going to veterans.
“I would even go as far — maybe it’s provocative to say — I would say he’s in favor of veterans committing suicide, because until he actually says he wants to divert all of those resources from illegal aliens to all of those veterans who are in need, and maybe we could even save some of the lives of these veterans,” Loomer said. “I don’t wanna hear Ruben Gallego talk about his military service anymore.”
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