When did he avow it?

Beto O’Rourke on Trump and El Paso: 'He is an open, avowed racist'

Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas representative in the US Houses, was asked by the CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday about Donald Trump:

“Do you think President Trump is a white nationalist?”

“The things that he has said, both as a candidate and then as president of the United States, this cannot be open for debate. 

"You, as well as I, have a responsibility call that out, to make sure that the American people understand what is being done in their name by the person who holds the highest position of public trust in this land.

“He does not even pretend to respect our differences or to understand that we are all created equal.

“He is saying that some people are inherently defective or dangerous – reminiscent of something you might hear in the Third Reich, not something that you expect in the United States of America – based on their religion, based on their sexual orientation, based on their immigration status, based on the countries that they come from. 

"Calling those in Africa shithole nations and saying that he’d like to have more immigration from Nordic countries, the whitest place on planet Earth today. Again, let’s be very clear about what is causing this and who the president is.

“He is an open, avowed racist and is encouraging more racism in this country.”

That he is a racist is not much open to doubt, just as Beto claims.

But most of what Beto alleges here is very much open to doubt, and it only begins with the question when did Trump openly avow his racism.

I have never seen or heard that, but I have seen and heard Bozo volubly deny he is a racist and insist he is, for example, the black American's best friend and political ally and benefactor.

That's all lies, of course, but it's what he has actually said, not what is true, that's in question.

The article quotes more of Beto, and I agree with what it there quotes him as saying.