Expressing deep concern over sudden spurt in hate crimes against ethnic and religious minorities, several top lawmakers have asked President-elect Donald Trump to rescind his recent appointment of Stephen K Bannon as his chief strategist.
Citing the example of racial slur of his Pakistani American doctor, Democratic Senator Harry Reid in his remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday called on Trump to rescind his appointment of Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counsellor and work to heal the wounds caused by the billionaire tycoon’s hateful rhetoric.
“I have been in politics for five decades, and I have not seen anything like what we are seeing today in America. The man who lost the popular vote by two million votes is now the president-elect. let me repeat that: the man who lost the popular vote by two million votes or more is now the president-elect,” he said.
Trump’s election victory has sparked a wave of hate crimes across the nation, Reid said, adding that this is a simple statement of fact.
“My and my wife’s Nevada physician is a Pakistani-American of Muslim faith. We think so much of him. We’ve known each other for 35 years. The day after the election, my friend was at a restaurant in las Vegas having dinner when a Trump supporter approached his table in a threatening manner and asked where he was from,” Reid said.