NEW: The pick to be ambassador to Germany has attacked the country for supporting "Muslim invaders" saying Muslims want to turn it into an "Islamic state."
He has called for allowing the shooting of undocumented immigrants trying to cross at the border. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/kfile-douglas-macgregor-german-ambassador-pick/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/0...
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In comments and one blog post, the pick, Douglas Macgregor called for martial law at the border saying undocumented would be "LUCKY" not be shot and killed entering the United States.
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Still, in more comments on Russia Today, Macgregor supported Russian separatism in Ukraine saying eastern Ukraine and Crimea were "clearly Russian" and should be allowed to join Russia.
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Macgregor also said the U.S. was wrong to intervene against Serbian ethnic cleansing in Kosovo because the Serbs were "orthodox christians" and Kosovars were Muslim.
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In one interview, Macgregor said Germans had a "sick mentality that says that generations after generations must atone sins" for the sins of Nazism when speaking on German disarmament. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/kfile-douglas-macgregor-german-ambassador-pick/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/0...