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Trump Renews Attacks on Non-White Lawmakers

Steve Heman

   WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his attacks Monday on
   four Democratic members of Congress, all women of color, contending
   they had demeaned the U.S., Israel and the presidency.

   "When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the
   people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul
   language they have used, and the terrible things they have said," Trump
   said on Twitter. "So many people are angry at them & their horrible &
   disgusting actions!"

     When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country,
     the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for
     the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have
     said. So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting
     actions!
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]July 15, 2019

   He added, "If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist
   hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular &
   unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it
   plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by
   the U.S."

     If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred
     spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular &
     unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it
     plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned
     by the U.S.
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [2]July 15, 2019

   Trump's latest comments came a day after he drew sharp criticism for a
   series of tweets in which he suggested the lawmakers "go back and help
   fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

   But Trump has said nothing of the fact that of the four apparently
   targeted in his original complaint Sunday morning, only one --
   Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a native of Somalia but naturalized
   as a U.S. citizen -- is foreign born. The other three were born in the
   U.S.: Ayana Pressley (who is a representative from Massachusetts) 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.

     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) [3]July 14, 2019

   The White House has not responded to a request from VOA on whether the
   president was aware prior to sending the tweets that three of the four
   are citizens by birth.

   A staunch Republican defender of Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who golfed
   with him over the weekend, said the president should "aim higher" with
   his criticism of the four, even as Graham disparaged their views.

   "We all know AOC (the acronym for Ocasio-Cortez) and this crowd are a
   bunch of communists," Graham told Fox News on Monday. "They hate
   Israel, they hate our own country, they're calling the guards along our
   border, the border control agents, concentration camp guards, they
   accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins [money],
   they're anti-Semitic, they're anti-America, don't get that, aim higher.
   We don't need to know anything about them personally. Talk about their
   policy," he said.

   The four progressives have been squabbling with Democratic House
   Speaker Nancy Pelosi over immigration policy and other issues. The
   dispute has attracted Trump's attention in recent days, even prompting
   him to utter rare public support for Pelosi -- at least when it comes
   to her attempt to rein in the newly elected foursome.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150720283654938625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150732346099978240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   3. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381394234941448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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