Michigan Republicans are a special breed apart. There are no problems in God’s Green Acres that do not have simple and immediate solutions, as in this case where Rep. Tim Walberg called for the annihilation of Gaza with nuclear weapons. A bold choice and probably not popular, especially in southeastern Michigan where over 300,000 people trace their descent from the Middle East.
Source: Detroit Free Press
U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, took sharp criticism from Democratic colleagues Saturday after a video was posted of him on social media at a town hall earlier in the week in which, after being asked about the Israeli-Hamas conflict, he seemed to suggest it would be acceptable to drop nuclear weapons on Gaza in an attempt to “get it over quick.”
In the video, which was independently reviewed by the Free Press, Walberg — who can be heard clearly but is outside the camera’s range — was asked at a town hall meeting in Dundee on March 25 whether the U.S. should be spending money on building a temporary port in Gaza to move humanitarian aid into the country, as proposed by President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address this month.
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” Walberg said. “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
The 47-second video posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, by some affiliated with the Democratic-aligned group DemCast ended immediately after that, so no other comments were captured. But a longer video reviewed by the Free Press showed Walberg continuing, saying: “The same should be in Ukraine. Defeat (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin quick. Instead of 80% of our funding for Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes, it should be 80%-100% to wipe out Russian forces if that’s what we want to do.”
