President Trump redoubled his attacks Sunday against minority congresswomen. A congressman who fought for civil rights offered a searing rebuke.
As President Trump launched a fresh Twitter attack Sunday on four minority congresswomen he said were “not capable of loving our Country,” a senior Democratic congressman who was active in the civil rights movement half a century ago offered a searing rebuke of the president, saying he now has “no doubt” Trump is a racist.
Over the past week, despite the qualms of some aides, Trump has doubled and tripled down on his condemnation July 14 of the members of Congress known as “the Squad,” all of whom are women of color. A furor erupted following that series of tweets in which the president said the four should “go back” to their countries of origin, although all are American citizens and all but one are native-born. The House of Representatives officially condemned the tweets as racist.
A Trump campaign official, Mercedes Schlapp, said Trump had disavowed the “Send her back!” chant that erupted at a campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., after the president verbally attacked Omar, who was born in Somalia and naturalized two decades ago. Video of the rally shows the president listening to the chant for 12 to 13 seconds, letting it die down before resuming his speech.
“What I’m unhappy about are the chants of the squad,” said Schlapp, castigating the four congresswomen for “fundamentally criticizing the United States.” “When you disagree with the president, suddenly you’re a bad person,” Cummings said. “Our allegiance is not to the president; our allegiance is to the Constitution of the United States of America, and the American people.”
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