White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called King’s behavior “abhorrent.” But Trump and King have a long history together. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“I am just a big fan in what he stands for.”
— Donald Trump, joint interview with Rep. Steve King on Iowa’s “Mickelson in the Morning,” Oct. 14, 2014
In the New York Times interview that caused a firestorm, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says he once told President Trump: “I market-tested your immigration policy for 14 years.”
After all, King was advocating for a border wall — a “King wall” as he called it — as early as 2006, almost 10 years before the concept of a wall along the southern border turned up in Trump’s announcement that he was running for president.