在周一的一次新采访中，共和党总统候选人乔·沃尔什出现在MSNBC的截止日期:白宫。在采访中，沃尔什承认，虽然他“在推特上说了种族主义的话”，但他并不认为自己是种族主义者。
前伊利诺伊州众议员乔·沃尔什对唐纳德·特朗普总统发起挑战，争取共和党总统提名。沃尔什一直在四处寻找新闻渠道，为之前他支持特朗普的言论做出回应。
这个星期天，沃尔什出现在美国广播公司的节目中本周和乔治在一起斯特凡诺普洛斯为他在2016年选举中提升特朗普的角色道歉。
“毫无疑问，我帮助创建了特朗普，”他说。
沃尔什还为他过去在推特上的一些行为道歉本周告诉斯特凡诺普洛斯，“我说了一些关于奥巴马总统的丑陋的事情，我很后悔。我与巴拉克·奥巴马有强烈的政策分歧，我经常让这些政策分歧变成私人恩怨。”
伊利诺伊州前众议员乔·沃尔什，在2012年的档案照片中显示，正在与唐纳德·特朗普总统竞选共和党提名人。
在周一的一集里截止日期:白宫，主持人尼科尔·华莱士问沃尔什，如果民主党候选人竞选失败，他是否愿意支持民主党候选人，MSNBC政治分析师小组成员约翰·海勒曼希望沃尔什的道歉得到澄清。
“你知道，你已经为帮助特朗普产卵道歉了，你为走得太远道歉了，”海尔曼说。“对很多人来说，总统是冷酷的种族主义者，你也是。我可以坐在这里读推文，“巴拉克·奥巴马是穆斯林”，“巴拉克·奥巴马出生在肯尼亚”不久前，我在推特上收到了[关于你的消息。"
“对许多非裔美国人来说，像唐纳德·特朗普一样是种族主义者的人，不可能有道德地位去挑战唐纳德·特朗普！”海尔曼补充道。
沃尔什回答道:“是的，我不会称自己为种族主义者，但我会说，约翰，我在推特上说过种族主义的话。”。“这是毫无疑问的。”
“道歉是不够的。当我说巴拉克·奥巴马是穆斯林时，那是一件很可怕的事情。我这么说是因为我非常厌恶奥巴马对以色列的政策，以至于我走了一个糟糕、丑陋的步骤，”沃尔什继续说道。
海尔曼反驳道:“我只想说，你有很多工作要做，要努力区分以某种方式说服人们‘我不是种族主义者，但我在公共场合说过很多种族主义的话’”。
“再说一遍，这不公平...你说我在推特上说了“不”字。我说了，我也说了一点，因为他们想改变华盛顿红人队的名字，所以他们说“红人队”是新的名词那是附言。红皮人不等同于名词。名词在这个国家有着独特丑陋的历史。为了说明这一点，我在推特上写下了这个名词。沃尔什说:“为了说明‘红皮人’这个词并不完全一样，参考争议华盛顿足球队。
“我不认为特朗普是种族主义者。特朗普只关心自己。他会扔掉种族主义和偏执的东西。如果你帮助他，那就是他所关心的。我不知道特朗普是种族主义者，”他补充道。
“你不知道特朗普——你还需要知道什么？种族主义者认为他是种族主义者！”华莱士插话道。
“那么，他是一个种族主义者，他是一个偏执者，他是一个排外者，他是一切，妮可。因为他会利用一切来提升自己的兴趣，”沃尔什回答。
在采访中，沃尔什还为袭击桑迪胡克小学集体枪击事件中遇难儿童的父母道歉。沃尔什在2017年发推特说，“我厌倦了桑迪胡克的父母。他们是党派和政治的。他们可以像任何人一样受到攻击。”在另一条推文中，他说“桑迪·胡克家长:你的15分钟到了。”
他把这条推文描述为“廉价镜头”，因为他不同意父母起诉枪支制造商。2012年桑迪胡克小学的大规模枪击事件造成26人死亡，其中包括20名6至7岁的儿童。
在MSNBC的采访中，沃尔什还否认他曾宣扬巴拉克·奥巴马总统不是在美国出生的“生育者”阴谋论，这将使他的总统任期无效。沃尔什在一篇文章中引用了阴谋论2015推文。
JOE WALSH SAYS HE'S 'SAID RACIST THINGS ON TWITTER,' BUT 'WOULDN'T CALL MYSELF A RACIST'
In a new interview on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh appeared on MSNBC's Deadline: White House. In the interview, Walsh admitted that while he has "said racist things on Twitter," he doesn't think he's a racist.
Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh is mounting a challenge against President Donald Trump to grab the Republican presidential nomination. Walsh has been making the rounds of news outlets to answer for previous comments he'd made in favor of Trump.
This Sunday, Walsh appeared on the ABC program This Week with George Stephanopoulos to apologize for his role in boosting Trump during the 2016 election.
"I helped create Trump, there's no doubt about that," he said.
Walsh also apologized for some of his past tweets on This Week, telling Stephanopoulos, "I said some ugly things about President Obama that I regret. I had strong policy disagreements with Barack Obama, and too often I let those policy disagreements get personal."
Former Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois, shown here in a file photo from 2012, is running against President Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee.
On Monday's episode of Deadline: White House, after host Nicolle Wallace asked if Walsh would be willing to support a Democratic candidate should his own candidacy fail, panelist John Heilemann, a MSNBC political analyst, wanted clarification on Walsh's apology.
"You know, you've apologized for helping to spawn Trump, you apologized for going too far," Heilemann said. "For a lot of people, the president is stone-cold racist and so are you. I can sit here and read off tweets, 'Barack Obama is a Muslim,' 'Barack Obama's born in Kenya.' I got tweets [of you] using the N-word not that long ago."
"There's no way someone, who to many African Americans looks like as much a racist as Donald Trump, has the moral standing to challenge Donald Trump!" Heilemann added.
"Yeah, and I wouldn't call myself a racist but I would say, John, I've said racist things on Twitter," Walsh replied. "There's no doubt about it."
"And an apology is not enough. When I said Barack Obama was a Muslim, that was a horrible thing to say. And I said it because I was so disgusted with Obama's policy towards Israel, that I went a bad, ugly step," Walsh continued.
"I'll just say you've got a lot of work to do, on trying to make a distinction between somehow convincing people 'I'm not a racist, but I've said a lot of racist stuff in public,'" Heilemann countered.
"Again, that's not fair ... you said I said the N-word in a tweet. I did, and I did to make a point, because they wanted to change the name of the Washington Redskins, so they said '"Redskins" is the new N-word.' That's B.S. The Redskins doesn't equate with the N-word. The N-word has a unique, ugly history in this country. To make that point, I wrote down the N-word in a Tweet. To make a point that it's not nearly what the word 'Redskins' is," Walsh said, referencing the controversy over the Washington, D.C.-based football team.
"I don't think Trump's a racist. All Trump cares about is himself. He'll throw out racist stuff, bigoted stuff. If you help him, that's all he cares about. I don't know that Trump's a racist—" he added.
"You don't know that Trump — what else do you need to know? The racists think he's a racist!" Wallace interjected.
"Well then, he's a racist, he's a bigot, he's a xenophobe, he's everything, Nicole. Because he will use everything to just simply advance his interests," Walsh replied.
In the interview, Walsh also apologized for attacking the parents of children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting. Walsh tweeted in 2017, "I'm sick & tired of the Sandy Hook parents. They're partisan & political. They can be attacked just like anyone else." In another tweet, he said "Sandy Hook Parents: Your 15 minutes is up."
He described the tweet as a "cheap shot," made because he disagreed with the parents suing gun manufacturers. The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 killed 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old.
In the MSNBC interview, Walsh also denied that he'd ever promoted the "Birther" conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, which would make his presidency invalid. Walsh referenced the conspiracy theory in a 2015 tweet.
