Killer Mike: Voting for Trump or Clinton Is “Voting for the Same Thing”

Killer Mike was one of Bernie Sanders’ most public supporters during the Vermont senator’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He interviewed Sanders at length, represented him in a post-debate spin room, talked about him on “Colbert,” and more. He also has not shown support for the Democrats’ nominee, Hillary Clinton. In February, he criticized Clinton for how she reacted to a Black Lives Matter protestor at one of her South Carolina events. With Sanders out of the race, Mike has “not decided yet” for whom he’s going to vote, but he’s “definitely not” voting for either Clinton or Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, he told TMZ. He said, “if you’re voting for Trump or Hillary Clinton, you’re voting for the same thing.”

During the brief interview, he was asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could act against Clinton, which many have taken as a call for her assassination. Mike said, “I don’t think that’s what he was saying. I hope that’s not what he was saying. He’s batshit crazy, but I don’t think he would call for the assassination of another presidential candidate.”

He was also asked about Trump’s claim that President Obama “founded ISIS,” and that Clinton is “the co-founder” (remarks he has since said were “sarcasm”). Mike responded:

I just think that’s crazy, but he’s not the only one that said it. I mean, not said that, but said crazy stuff. If you listen to Fox News, you hear the wildest shit every day. So, my thing is, Donald Trump, essentially, is repeating the same stuff I hear when I watch Fox News, so I’m not surprised by it, but I don’t think our president–but I do think our government has done a great job at destabilizing countries and creating enemies. And, you know, as Americans, we have to understand that, in the world, we’re an empire–we’re an empirical force–and we have to, we need to, as citizens, start demanding–we had one candidate this year, who had a strong chance of winning, who was anti-growing war, and that was Sanders, and we didn’t vote him in, so we’re getting what we asked for. We’re asking for more war. And, if you don’t want any war, you’d be voting Jill Stein. If you want less government and war, you’d be voting Gary Johnson. But if you’re voting for Trump or Hillary Clinton, you’re voting for the same thing. All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.

He continued his critique on Twitter:

I don’t laff and play with those I don’t like @_shukura_ pic.twitter.com/yWPAf99bcx

— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) August 12, 2016

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