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Trump Tweets about Non-White Lawmakers Prompt Fresh Outrage

Steve Herman

   STERLING, VIRGINIA - In a series of Sunday morning tweets quickly
   deemed racist and xenophobic by critics, U.S. President Donald Trump
   has provoked fresh controversy with taunts at several new members of
   Congress.

   Trump on Twitter, targeted Progressive Democratic Congresswomen,
   telling them to "go back" and help fix the "crime infested" countries
   from which they came.

     So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who
     originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and
     total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the
     world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now
     loudly......
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]July 14, 2019

   Of the four apparently targeted, only one-- Minnesota Congresswoman
   Ilhan Omar, a native of Somalia-- is foreign born. The other three are
   native Americans: Ayana Pressley (who is a representative from
   Massachusetts) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
   is a native New Yorker (and represents the eastern part of the Bronx
   and a portion of north-central Queens), and Rashid Tlaib, of Michigan,
   was born in Detroit.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381394234941448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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