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At Rally, Trump Goes After His New Democratic Foils

Associated Press

   CINCINNATI - President Donald Trump opened a revved-up rally Thursday
   in Cincinnati by tearing into the Democrats he has been elevating as
   his new political foils, with attacks on four liberal congresswomen of
   color and their party's leadership of cities.

   The president, who faced widespread criticism for not doing more to
   stop the chants of "Send her back" about Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar at
   a rally two weeks ago, did not mention Omar or her three colleagues by
   name in the opening moments of his Ohio gathering, but the target of
   his attacks was unmistakable.

   "The Democrat party is now being led by four left-wing extremists who
   reject everything that we hold dear," Trump said of Omar and her fellow
   House Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of
   Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

   But the fleeting mention did not lead to further chants. Nor did an
   extended attack on Democratic leaders of urban areas, which Trump has
   laced into in recent days as part of his incendiary broadsides against
   Rep. Elijah Cummings and the majority-black city of Baltimore.

   "No one has paid a higher price for the far-left destructive agenda
   than Americans living in our nation's inner cities," Trump said,
   drawing cheers from the mostly white crowd in the packed arena on the
   banks of the Ohio River. "We send billions and billions and billions
   for years and years and it's stolen money, and it's wasted money."

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